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My Christmas card from Michael Gervers was sent from Ethiopia. It contained the amazing news that he has found TWO more panelled tablet-woven curtains in churches there! This brings the total of those found to 13. And still no hint of where or by whom they made. A conservator from Canada is out there working on the only curtain made of silk, the one found in Abba Garima monastery. >From slides and photos he sent me I was able to analyse earlier finds. Except for the silk one, they are all woven from thick cotton, each tablet holding two white, two brown threads. These are turned to make various oblique stripe patterns and, more interestingly, images of people, animals. The skill is obvious when they move without effort from one type to another. Up to 300 tablets were required for each panel. It is strange that the largest pieces of TW known have such a mysterious origin. I still have a few copies of the article Gervers wrote about the finds up to 2004. I think I was asking £1.50 to cover its cost + postage, if anyone wants one. Peter Collingwood Send private reply to "peter collingwood" <[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.
