Well, thinking circularly: Tablet weaving historically was most likely primarily useful: animal trappings, tent bands, binding cords. It's only we who are weaving at leisure who think in terms of the purely decorative, or the complex for complexities sake.
S. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Neil Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all: > > I used to use lamp wick as snowshoe bindings (more years ago than I > care to recount...), but I cannot find lamp wick these days, and I > fear that what I might find will be only in short lengths. I one have > one binding, so I have a model for what I want. > > I put the one binding on a shelf last month, beside some leftover trim > I wove during the summer. Then I noticed that they look very similar. > > So next time I'm in the mood to tablet weave, I'm going to break out > the thin weaving cotton, and weave myself some snowshoe bindings. It > won't need to be fancy weaving, but it would be silly to make it all > white when I can so easily personalize my snowshoe bindings. It'll be > good weaving practice, too since each binding need to be several feet > long. > > Cheers, > Neil Slater > Regina, Canada > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
