The Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Book Series

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Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: A Tablet Weaver’s Record Book

A Tablet Weaver’s Record Book is a comprehensive guide to planning your weaving, covering many of the yarn different measurement systems that you will come across, as well as calculations for determining the warp length you need and an estimate for your weft. It includes 40 planning sheets for you to record all the details about your bands.

Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Double-Face Inscriptions

Double-Face Inscriptions is a fully comprehensive set of uppercase and lowercase lettering based on the Mainz Psalter of 1457 (the second moveable type book to be published in Europe).

Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Egyptian Zigzags

Egyptian Zigzags describes a historical band from Egypt, dating to somewhere beteen the 7th and 15th centuries, with instructions for weaving your own copy of the band, advice on designing in a similar style and 154 new drafts for you to play around with. There is a free draft here to accompany the book.

Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Golden Diagonals

Golden Diagonals is an exploration of medieval gold brocaded bands (known as orphreys) found on certain types of vestment. It describes 8 different extant objects, with 78 different motifs based on them in a variety of tablet woven structures. There are free drafts here and here to accompany the book.

Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Warp-Twined Angles Volume One

Warp-Twined Angles Volume One covers the 42 drafts from the first edition of Warp-Twined Angles, with all new photography, updated and clearer explanations, and reformatted drafts.

Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Warp-Twined Angles Volume Two

Warp-Twined Angles Volume Two consists of a further 65 drafts in the same style as Volume One, using the same threading, making them interchangeable with each other. I produced this separate volume for anyone who already has the first edition of Warp-Twined Angles and just wants the new material.

Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Warp-Twined Angles Combined Edition

In this combined edition of Warp-Twined Angles, you will find all 107 drafts from Volumes One and Two collected together in a single volume. For Advent 2023, I wove up random drafts picked from this book in festive colours. You can find out more about this project here.

Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Vacant-Hole Pinwheels Revised Edition

Vacant-Hole Pinwheels is an exploration of the vacant-hole technique, with 23 motifs inspired by the narrow tablet woven bands on the Hildesheim Cope held by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. The book has a further 29 pinwheel motifs in vacant-hole technique that are extrapolations based on the Cope motifs. The Revised Edition includes all new photography, reformatted drafts, and improved and expanded explanations.