It's a flaw in the drawing. If you look at the actual photographs rather than the drawing (done by someone who knew little about TW except that warp-twining was characteristic), it's obvious that the piece was tablet-woven. "Reconstruction" in this case means "drawing of what I think it might have looked like." No actual yarn was involved.
Ave Matsin, an Estonian scholar, has woven an actual reconstrution, and it's gorgeous. I had the opportunity to see and handle it last year. (My notes are at home.) Contact information for Ave is here: http://www.kultuur.edu.ee/225315 Sarah On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Julia <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings to the list. > > A few days ago a friend of mine sent me some pictures from a relatively new > book on Siksälä archeology - "Siksälä: a Community at the Frontiers". Among > other pictures I found a very strange drawing that, according to the caption, > shows a reconstruction of a squared shawl from female grave. You can see the > drawing here: http://www.yrmegard.pri.ee/pictures/siksala.jpg > > Tablet woven edge on the left is beyond my understanding. How is it possible > to create such pattern while turning the tablets continuously in the same > direction? It also seems that the dark cords on the left are twisted more > loosely than cords in the pattern area. > > There is nothing on tablet weaving in the text of the book and the author of > this reconstruction drawing has passed away quite a while ago. It is possible > that her drawing is not technically accurate yet I would leave that > possibility for the last. We are currently trying to find out if the original > textile fragment survived but most probably it didn't. > > Does anybody have an idea how such pattern could be woven? > > With best wishes, > > Julia > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.stringpage.com
