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I took a tablet weaving class at an SCA event. unfortuanly I don't remember much of what went on, besides getting frustrated with inferior cards and the long threading process. The cards were cheap cardboard, like what a cereal box is made out of, drilled as a pack. there were "burrs" from the drilling. (I ended up hopelessly tangling the first weaving and throwing it away, bying comercially available cards. My first real weaving, that I finished, was a 1 dark, 3 white pattern done in cheverons that I finally tensioned on an inkle loom. (that hooked me, seeing the stripes "magically" appear was adicting. I started researching, on the web and in the library. So...youall are on the right track to "hook" someone with weaving. 1) show the quick 10 minute warping techniches. (and the switching of the threads in the two edge cards to get a all dark card and an all light card to make a border) 2) show either pictures, or an example of warp tensioning besides body tensioning, such as inkle loom setup, or the "tipped over chair on a table" type loom, For anywone that is "sports clumbsy" body tensioning the loom may end up to be a nightmare to them. (it was for me untill I put my work on an inkle loom) 3) bring lots of pretty "spectacualr" band examples... seeing the different bands on the weaver's hand website (and gutrums's) inspired me to keep weaving. Eva __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Send private reply to eva gullkyntir <[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.
