Card Weaving & Tablet Weaving

A tabletwoven brocaded belt, with documentation and information about the artifacts and illustrations which inspired the project.

Photos and description of a tabletwoven fillet made for an A&S competition.

A design tool for card weaving which enables you to design card weaving patterns and try them out without threading a single card.

Much tablet weaving in the Known World involves "threa ded-in&#34 ; patterns. This is one of four main tablet weaving techniques ; the others are double- cloth weaves, so-called "Egypt ian" diagonal weaves (actually used in Scandinavi a in the Middle Ages), and single-col or or other principall y textural weaves.

Photos and documentation for a tabletwoven Anglo-Saxon belt.

This article is not intended as a practical instruction on how to do tabletweaving. Rather, it is a brief description of various methods and whether they can be considered useful for our purposes (i.e. whether they are period).

Tablet weaving is a very popular technique for weaving narrow bands for belts or trim. It is a weaving technique that requires very little investment beyond the actual thread for the product itself, making it affordable for many of us.

History, materials, and basic instructions for tablet weaving.

PDF file of Soper Lane's basic instruction sheet. Includes diagrams and instructions for making cardboard tablets. (Requires a login to the Soper Lane website.)

This document covers sources for tablet weaving before 1600.

Information, instructions, and samples.

Informatio n from a class handout on brocaded tablet weaving; includes history, materials, and instructio ns.

A simple loom that will make your tablet weaving a little easier.

A study group requiring Candace Crockett&# 39;s book Card Weaving, some 3/2 or 5/2 cotton, and at least 25 cards (tablets). By following the book and suggestion s here, you will, depending on your level, learn to card weave and/or comprehend the technique so that you are comfortabl e with it and can create your own designs.

The loom you choose will determine how well you like weaving as well as what you weave. There are many different types of looms and many reputable manufactur es.

A TWinkle loom is an inkle loom being used for tablet-weaving. This document shows a fast way to warp an inkle loom for tablet-weaving, using the same yarn colors in all cards.

This is an advanced tablet weaving technique. These instructions are for the one-pack method.

Card Weaving (also known as Tablet Weaving) is an ancient form of weaving. It can be done by one person without a loom or other bulky equipment. All that is required are a collection of "cards", spun cording of some sort (embroidery floss, yarn, twine), and a surface or surfaces to anchor the weaving to. The Tablet Weaving Archive has more information about this wonderful hobby.

From the Proceeding s of the Society of Antiquarie s of Scotland. Includes informatio n about the Orkney hood, the Rogart shirt, and several knit caps, as well as several preserved fragments.

These patterns were taken from extant trim, for the most part tablet woven. They can be used for tablet weaving or embroidery.

Includes patterns and techniques for tablet-weaving, embroidery, handstitching, nalbinding, handspinning, and more.

A matching Hlad and cuffs in the Viking style with heraldic decoration , and a cloak in the Viking style with heraldry appliqued on the front and back and trimmed with tablet weaving.

Continuous warping is an efficient method in which the tablets are threaded as a pack instead of individually. After warping, the tablets are flipped, turned, and sometimes moved to a different place in the pack before or during weaving to create different patterns and structures.

This pamphlet introduces one period technique for achieving a figured tablet weave. It assumes some basic knowledge of the mechanics and terminolog y of tablet-wea ving.

Includes: A Background in Tablet Weaving, Tablet Weaving -How to Double Face, Tablet Weaving - How to, Tablet Weaving tips and tricks

An ongoing site with articles and links on Fiber Arts as they apply to the Middle Ages and the SCA.

Although these drawings were taken from brocaded tablet weaving, the charted designs can be used for anything that requires a graphed pattern. these designs were redrawn from Birka III: The Textilfunde aus den Grabern by Agnes Geijer, Uppsala 1938. they are from the excavation of the Norse town of Birka which was abandoned or destroyed around 1000 A.D.

There were many ways of weaving narrow fabrics for girdles, leg bindings, borders, and decorative braids. We can say little about the looms, for if their warp was stretched between the weaver's belt and a tree or table leg there would be no archaeological trace.

A SCA-focused list for the discussion of historical Tablet/Card Weaving.

A basic guide to tablet weaving, a technique for combining warp and weft threads to form a fabric and uses tablets or cards punched with holes to form the shed.

Tablet weaving is a form of weaving which goes back to aprox. 1000 BC. It is typically used to make long narrow trim for clothing or is used to finish the edge of plain-woven cloth. A plain weave uses fibers running the length of the cloth and a weft fiber being run from side to side. Tablet weaving is different in that each "row" of a fabric is not two fibers deep (a plain weave) but can be 3, 4, 6 or any number of fibers deep. The multiple fibers twist around each other; one being visable on the top and one on the bottom while the others are hidden in the middle. By using a multitude of colors and alternating the direction in which the fibers rotate a pattern can be created on the cloth. There are many techniques for getting a wide variety of patterns and texture.

There are three important elements which determine the structure of tablet weaving: threading direction, threading pattern, and turning direction. I have found that understanding how tablet weaving actually works, and how these three elements interact, makes it much easier to design original patterns and also to learn new techniques.

Documentation from a project to create a tablet-woven seal tag for a Royal document. Includes general information on pendant seals and seal tags.

On the creation of a replica hood. Covers: Making a warp-weighted loom; the pattern of the woven cloth; tablet woven and narrow bands; instructions making the broad band with fringe; and assembly.

An annotated bibliography on tablet weaving, based on the bibliography in The Techniques of Tablet Weaving by Peter Collingwood.

This is a discussion group for the Worshipful Company of Narrowworkers in the SCA. We cover a range of narrow textile arts, including tablet weaving, fingerloop braiding, netting, knotting, kumihimo, and much more.

The motif for this tablet-weaving "recipe" is based on a Viking Age brocaded tablet-weaving pattern found on Bands 22 and 23 at Birka, Sweden.

Links to images of looms and weavers at work from the 12th-16th centuries. Includes backstrap looms, band looms, tablet-wea ving looms, box looms, floor looms, and rigid heddle looms.

Mostly an illustrated practical guide to small-scale sericulture, but with some SCA content, including tabletweaving and silk reeling using traditional methods.