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Robert Schweitzer wrote > (and maybe someone else can convince the curators the difference > between tablet woven bands and inkle woven bands) Since "inkle" just means a band, most tablet weaving is of inkles. The word "inkle" is beginning to change its meaning to be a band woven on a small loom designed for the weaving of narrow bands (an "inkle loom"), but one cannot fault a museum for using the older usage of the word. I agree that it is silly of a museum to use a word like "inkle" though, since few of the museum goers will have any idea what it means. It would be useful for the museum to distinguish between twined-warp structures like tablet weaving and more conventional weave structures. That is a distinction that the curators should be capable of, and one that should be explained to the museum goers if there are any tablet-woven articles on display. Of course, that assumes that the museum is one that is interested in educating the people who come, rather than being archivists or entertainers. Many traditional museum curators are mainly archivists, interested in the contents of the museum collection, but not in the people who come to the museum. Many modern museum administrators are mainly interested in the entertainment value of their displays---how well they will attract people to come to the museum. Very few people associated with museums are truly interested in the educational value of the collections or displays. ------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Karplus [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics (Senior member, IEEE) (Board of Directors, ISCB) life member (LAB, Adventure Cycling, American Youth Hostels) Effective Cycling Instructor #218-ck (lapsed) Affiliations for identification only. Send private reply to Kevin Karplus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
