About 2-3 years ago I decided I wanted a real challenge with my tablet weaving. I had already tried out free-style weaving and fairly complicated patterned weaving as you can see in the posts from about that time. Now I wanted to make something really Viking like that I could use as an edge for [...]
The Birka 22 motif was found on the Swedish site of Birka on Björkö just west of Stockholm. The pattern itself posted online by Carolyn Priest-Dorman in 1993 and is quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. This type of tablet weaving is done using a thread-in pattern and does not [...]
The Mammen motifs where found on woolen tablet woven bands around 1870 it what of course is presumed to be the grave of a VIP. This grave is situated in the village of Mammen near Viborg (Denmark). Others have published these bands on the Internet in danish and they basically believe the bands to be [...]
