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TEX04C01 Brocade Tablet (Card) Weaving
(Created by THL Karis apa Mehlan Er Kapas)
Level of Content: Advanced
Estimated Length of Class: 2 hours. Suggest having open time afterwards for those who are having a difficult time.
Course Description: This class teaches the students how to do brocaded tablet weaving including reading a diagram. It also includes a brief history of Tablet Weaving and uses for brocaded items in “period”.
Students should bring to the class a pre-warped loom using only 1 color for all 4 threads in cards, a shuttle with the same color thread as the pre-warped loom, a second contrasting color thread for brocading and a secondary shuttle for the brocade thread. Card can be alternately threaded are all threaded in one direction per personal preference. (NOTE: Number of pre-threaded cards to be determined by instructor selected/or student selected pattern) This site:
http://willadsenfamily.org/sca/isabel_as/brocade/13th_Century_Brocaded_Tablet_Woven_Band.pdf
contains a simple pattern utilizing 15 cards and replicates a period brocade.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this class, students should be able to:
Understand the basic technique for brocaded tablet weaving.
Read and follow a brocade tablet weaving diagram.
Begin to weave a piece using the brocade technique demonstrated
Suggested Teaching Resources:
Collingwood, Peter. The Techniques of Tablet Weaving
Brocaded Tablet Weaving By Fru Isabel Ulfsdottir, CW http://willadsenfamily.org/sca/isabel_as/tw-brocade/Brocaded_Tablet_Weaving_Class.pdf
Tablet woven brocade http://www.wormspit.com/brocade.htm
Spies, Nancy. Ecclesiastical Pomp and Aristocratic Circumstance. A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands. Arelate Studio ISBN-10: 0615116817
Spies, Nancy; Bargmann, Ute. Anna Neuper’s Modelbuch: Early Sixteenth-Century Patterns for Weaving Brocaded Bands Arelate Studio ISBN-10: 0971896011
TWIST - The Ecclesiastical Vestments of a 13th Century Medieval Bishop by Nancy Spies http://www.sfwaldorfhighschool.org/NewsAndEvents/XVI-1_Spring_09.pdf
Additionally at http://www.weavershand.com/brocade.htm there is An Annotated Bibliography for Tablet Woven Brocades by Nancy Spies
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