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[dragonlady7]

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I have been remiss in replying to replies, and such, but like what’s new– but i have a moment so let me just paste in a collection from the last weaving update https://www.tumblr.com/bomberqueen17/695098572146900992/more-weaving-nerdery –

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/taktochno

taktochno https://www.tumblr.com/taktochno

My quick perusal of videos shows most of them tying to the swivels directly at one end, and the swivels themselves either on rings or fixed to a board that is fastened separately to the loom. So essentially what you’ve done, just with extra space to allow for thread wrangling.

[followup] rings - keyring types about 1.5 inch diameter

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/s-leary

Yeah I’ve seen the swivels for sale attached to boards. That’s clearly meant for use with a backstrap rig, which does seem like a very common way to do tablet weaving, but since I have an inkle loom I’d rather use that. For now. I can see, though, that the inkle loom feeding the excess warp through pegs means that it’s rather cumbersome to use the swivels at all, so i can see how people just don’t.

In future I may set up a more permanent backstrap-style situation at the cabin– since I can utilize the interior of that space however I see fit, I might work out a setup there. I can also see setting one up like when I was a kid, where I’d hook my work over my big toe– I used to braid yarn sort of compulsively, and I recently found the ball of all the yarn braids I made, which must have driven my mother insane. I’d do two strands of one color, attached, which made a loop, and it would go over my toe, and then I could have a useful working space that moved as I progressed. So I could probably come up with something like that for tablets…. anyway. I’d use the swivels with that, because with that short a usable distance I’d definitely not want to lose any to twist buildup.

I have a very carefully-warped mixed balanced-twist and spinners project that I set up yesterday and then had to take off the loom and set aside because I could not actually mentally process the counting to reverse the directions on the pattern cards, when combined with the other new concept of skip-hole threading; it didn’t help that the pattern did not specify whether the two-thread cards were meant to have quarter turns or half turns, and I could not work it out, and the first two repeats just looked like mush, and I gave up. I’d spent four hours warping it, securing all the ends with masking tape– I’ll write it up some other time, I took tons of photos.

s-leary https://www.tumblr.com/s-leary

Pretty! Are there any farmer’s market people who keep horses?

That was what I was thinking and no, which is insane to me. How do I have zero ponies in my life. This is terrible.

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/fabledshadow

fabledshadow https://www.tumblr.com/fabledshadow

I mean i can mail you horsehair. We have ten horses and a mule, what color do you want lol

I will DM you about this– but are you overseas? I don’t want my silly project to be an entire Situation with international postage. But the genuine answer is that I’d love long hairs in any color, this is a thing I do want to experiment with.

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/sassyladythegeek

sassyladythegeek https://www.tumblr.com/sassyladythegeek

I have several friends who do inkle weaving but I’ve never tried it out myself. Hearing about the details is fascinating. Also! My daughter has horses! I could send you horsehair.

Na ha! Well, I’ll DM you too. For the record, what I’m doing isn’t per se inkle weaving– I’m using an inkle loom, because I knew it would be much easier to manage than coming up with a setup of my own. I do intend to get into inkle weaving proper at some point– you have to make thread heddles for that, and my perusal of the instructions was severely hampered by my current state of not-much-brain.

Like, I’d tried to read about tablet weaving but it made no sense to me, until I did it, and now I’m like well, I can only understand what I understand and that’s that. The loom came with instructions for how to set it up with thread heddles and I just. They went in my eyeballs and straight out the back of my head. But if I can get my friend to show me how it works I know it will be within my capabilities and I’ll be able to read and understand the directions after that. I hope.

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/greenfairyarmadillo

greenfairyarmadillo https://www.tumblr.com/greenfairyarmadillo

Excited for the eventual appearance of tablet weaving in your Witcher series!

YOU, you get it. That is absolutely going to happen.

Here’s a bit of trivia: tablet weaving appears quite liberally in the Witcher video games, though it’s not obvious that’s what it is. I noticed it most specifically in a cutscene from W2 that I was watching (a friend was doing some playthrough streaming because nobody wants to be left alone with that godawful game, and yet, every once in a while in all the ugliness, Iorveth looms up and Is Beautiful, incongruously, so a group of us get together once in a while to witness this and then collectively all howl when someone makes a gross ‘lesbians hurr hurr’ joke onscreen. Come on, W2, how do you suck this much)–

Several characters, I think mostly based off one character model, are wearing jackets/gambesons that have very distinctive wide trim on them, ornamented with letters. (The character I saw it on was Bras of Ban Ard https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Bras_of_Ban_Ard, specifically.) Other times I noticed this (I think there are costumes like that in W3 too) I just absently assumed they were embroidery, but–

that is tablet weaving, that is 100% tablet weaving. Tablet is known in many historical eras and locations, but is heavily represented in grave finds and archeaological digs in the Baltic, Slavic, and Scandinavian regions, neighboring to Poland– and i know, we’ve covered this, the Witcher books are not meant to be set in medieval Poland at all, but the games have a very heavily-Slavic-influenced aesthetic since they were made in Poland– and is absolutely finely-manipulable enough that you can do alphabets in it. (This author has a lovely book about it called Please Weave A Message http://www.lindahendrickson.com/tablet-weaving-books.htm and I love it solely for the name.)

So anyway.

You know, I meant to put lucet weaving in the Aiden-And-Lambert-Hook-Up stor https://archiveofourown.org/works/37892998y and I just plain didn’t get around to it, I set it up with Lambert breaking his trousers lacing but then I just never wrote the morning-after scene. So I haven’t even put most of the fiberworking stuff I meant to into this series.

We’ll get there. Or not. But like. Assume it’s in there in the background, LOL.

anyway i know the text in-game is in some sort of decipherable script so like mega bonus points i guess to anyone who knows what the hell is so important it’s written all over everyone’s shirts LOL (Your picture was not posted)