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[stellar_muddle]

For later...
It's instructions for brocading into inkle weaving, which I think may translate into brocading on tablet weaving.

But I want to finish the black work chemise first...

Though if anyone has any instructions and or links on the subject that they recommend... :)

Now I just need to work out if it is worth starting the fire tonight. Southerly wind and rain caught up just as I left town in the train and while we got ahead in the tunnels, it caught up again in the last 100m from home. Slightly soggy there, but lucky I had been paranoid in the morning and brought the raincoat.

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[teffania.livejournal.com]

I understand that brocading is fairly similar regardless of weaving method. However brocading with the picture in the other direction is more common in historical examples of tabletweaving as you get more pixels for the number of tablets you have to thread up.

For broacaded tabletweaving, I suspect the reason there are few online instructions for it is because there is a fantastic book on the topic- "eclesiastical pomp and circumstance" by Nancy Spies. It's an utter bargain for the price, and is fantastic. It includes instructions on how to brocade, a great history of tabletweavign tools, a catalogue of all known brocading examples 600-1600, patterns for several of them, A couple of chapters of anaysis of the body of broacding (technique variants, patterns, materials used, uses).

This is the kind of book that will take the living historian right from a beginner (here's how to start and a simple pattern), to academic journal level analysis of bands and technical details in the catalogue. The referenceing and footnoting is also of academic standard.

Ordering direct from the authour is easy, pleasant and prompt:
http://www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio1.html

Final warning - brocading is quite slow. An inch an hour is not an uncommon speed for a piece of low to moderate complexity.

[mmy-me.livejournal.com]

And I also have a book with brocading patterns which you might want to have a look at, it's a period pattern manual. I keep meaning to do some - maybe when I've finished the intarsia. (yeah, right!)

[teffania.livejournal.com]

This one by the same authour?
http://www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudioaneuper.html

I must admit my copy remains unused as a pattern manual too, despite best intentions - although there aren't really any easy beginner patterns in it.