Hello everyone. This one is all about handweaving and fiber arts. It's espescially
for: Rosamunde, Rowan and Ragnar, Phiala, Orianna, Valgardr, Rhiannon y Bwa
and all those other interested fiber freaks out there! I'm
one.
Again, I'm rushed this week, so the annotation is minimal. Feel free to forward these links wherever they will find a use.
Techie stuff: My browser isn't continuing the hotlinks when the line wraps, so if it's a problem for you, too, and it's a long address, remember to use cut and past to get the entire link into the browser address bar.
Good Luck
Aoife
Beginner's Weaving Website
http://www.fancyfibers.com/
Handweaver's Webring
http://j.webring.com/webring?ring=fibermom;list
The Weaver's Hand
http://www.weavershand.com/
(Site Excerpt) An information page for weavers! Specifically for those interested
in Tablet Weaving, Kumihimo, and Plysplitting, but peruse the links if your
interests lie elsewhere.
Guntram's Tablet Weaving (Includes Guntram's Tablet Weaving Thingy, a computer
application for designing tablet patterns)
http://users.iafrica.com/e/ec/eckie/tabletweaving/
Kurt Laitenberger's Tablet Weaving Page
http://home.t-online.de/home/kfm.laitenberger/etabtext.htm
Includes links to patterns for: Warp Twined, Egyptian Diagonal, Bands with inscriptions,
twill binding, 3-tablet threads, etc. Many beautiful designs on display.
MARIJKE VAN EPEN
Ethnic Weaving Techniques and Tablet Weaving
http://home-3.tiscali.nl/~robfigee/vanepen/index.html
(Site Excerpt) Weaving is a very special and ancient craft. Very often it is
part of the creation history of a people. With the most simple means but with
a rich fantasy and knowledge man created and creates beautiful weaves of great
diversity for clothing, shelter and other means. These unknown weavers from
other times or cultures have always been an inspiration to me. I am especially
interested in etnic weaving techniques and tablet weaving. It is worth while
that this knowledge can be preserved and kept alive to make it available to
new generations. I hope my weavings, classes and publications will be a contribution
to this.
The Loomy Bin
http://www.theloomybin.com/
(Site Excerpt)This site provides design tools and patterns for handweavers.
The tools can be used over the internet. In the case of card weaving, you can
also install and run the software locally on your computer. To use the tools
over the internet, your computer needs to have a Java enabled browser and needs
to support Javascript. The tools are for card weaving and loom weaving. (Warning:
not for MAC users)
An Inkle Weaving Bibliography
http://www.weavershand.com/inklebiblio.html
Continuous warping on an TWinkle Loom (Note TWinkle means Tablet Weaving Inkle
Loom: originally published in TWIST, a weaver's newsletter)
http://lmeyer.threadnet.com/TW/TWinkle.php3#loom_info
On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html
(Site Excerpt) The On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related
Topics contains material on weaving, woven textiles, looms, textile manufacture,
spinning, dyeing, fibers, pattern design, and basketry. Most documents are in
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).Important Notice: Acrobat Reader 4.0 or
higher is required to access the PDFs on this site. It's free and available
for a wide range of platforms
Þóra's (Thora's) Textile Resources for the Re-enactor
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/textileres.html
(Site Excerpt)Welcome to my filing cabinet! Here you will find links to some
articles, bibliographies, and weaving drafts I have produced on the subject
of Western textile history that may be of interest to Dark Ages, medieval, and
Renaissance re-enactors. Some of these are reprinted from various group newsletters
inside and outside the re-enactor community; others are teaching aids from classes
I have taught. Now that the website's been here over five years, though, many
of the works here have been produced specifically for web publication. All of
them are copyright © by me, Carolyn Priest-Dorman.
As a Viking Age re-enactor I am most often known as Þóra Sharptooth,
a tenth-century steader from the area near Jorvík in the Danelaw. However,
my interest in textiles is by no means limited to Vikings or the so-called Dark
Ages.
Viking Loom Bibliography
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/wwloom.html
A photo of a re-enactment warp-weighted loom appears at the bottom of this
page
http://www.radix.net/~lindo/viking.htm
These folks are working on a re-enactment village, complete with loom.
http://www.hurstwic.org/activities/projects/text/projects.htm
This site has some textile patterns based on finds at Birka
http://www.tirlan.com/danelaw/crafts.html
Roman Loom article
http://www.unc.edu/courses/rometech/public/content/survival/DeRamus_Durham_Laxton/kathy.html
York Archaeology has found some clay loom weights
http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/secrets/vikincft.htm
This site has a reproduction viking loom (photo on the page).
http://www.w-isles.gov.uk/museum/viking.htm
This site has some limited information about textiles. It lists sources
(the main reason I offer it here)
http://www.ncte.ie/viking/dubarch.htm
North European Symposium on Archaeological Textiles
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/nesatlist.html
Textile resources for the re-enactor
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/textileres.html
Bibliography of Handweaving sources for SCA use
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/textilebiblio.html
(possibly Thora Sharptooth's)
Regia Anglorum Textiles
http://www.regia.org/textiles.htm
Regia Anglorum Wool and Stuff (textiles in period)
http://www.regia.org/textile1.htm
Textiles through Time
http://www.interlog.com/~gwhite/ttt/tttintro.html
A bibliography of textile references
http://www.duke.edu/~scg3/references.html