Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Hello folks,
even though I am also not a new subscriber I would also like to introduce myself, espc. to new members that joined the list the last 2-3 years. I have been tablet weaving for about 6 years now. I learnt it from my wife who herself learnt it out of a German tablet weaving book. Nevertheless my interests changed a little during the last years, our interests now are medieval textiles, espc. from the Merowingean and Karolingean period and region. As we live in Aachen (city of coronation of Charlesmagne) this I think is quite natural. On the other hand out handicraft interests had also been expanded: My wife always did hand spinning, since last year we got a hand loom where she weaves cloth for our own textiles last project was an Iron-age textile (Thorsberg gown). Since two years now we are working on the whole cloth creation process: We buy sheared wool directly on a wool market in spring, wash it, card it, spinn it, dye it, weave it and finally produce cloth and textiles. So tablet weaving is only one part of our activities. My latest project were the completion of Hallstatt II and a 3/1 twill Bakhtiyari band inspired by the motifs of the Bakhtiyari band on Linda Hendricksons website. Unfortunately no pictures are available up to now. Currently I am working on Hallstatt III and a diagonal motif band I am making as an edging for a friends tunic. She represents a scribe and will produce 12 goatskin parchments with tablet weaving instructions, dying recipies and descriptions of dyestuffs for us in exchange. From time to time I am working on my long-dated projects (Snartemo V, Hochdorf 3/1 twill and others shown on http://www.steinmaus.de/Mittelalter/weben/aktuell/index.html ). In parallel we are busy with preparing some bands for a tablet weaving exhibition in Krefeld next year. Many of my tablet weaving projects as well as instructional pages and pictures from our activities can be found on my website, unfortunately most in German. Now we are full of expectation looking forward to meet a lot of tablet weaving friends in the South German tablet weavers meeting in the Black Forest from Nov. 10th till 13th. Guido -- Highspeed-Freiheit. Bei GMX supergünstig, z.B. GMX DSL_Cityflat, DSL-Flatrate für nur 4,99 Euro/Monat* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl Send private reply to "Guido Gehlhaar" <[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.
