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Tablet Weaving Gallery 8
Nancy Spies - Brocade Weaver

These and other patterns are in my book Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands. The bands on this and the next two pages were woven to emphasize the designs and are not meant to be historical reproductions of actual bands.

141 tablets, 60/2 silk, red, brown, and beige, Kreinik Japan #7 gold, 7.7 cm wide. Source: Riggisberg, Switzerland 232, pattern on band from chasuble of St Vitalis 11th century.

49 tablets, 60/2 purple silk, DMC perle cotton #5, 2.5 cm wide. Source: Pattern from the band on the coffin burial cloth of Isabel de Molina, nun, 13th century. Museo de Telas Medievales, Burgos, Spain.

127 tablets, 60/2 grey silk, DMC 30 Cordennet Special, white, 5.7 cm wide. Source: Pattern from the chasuble of St. Wolfgang, 12th century. Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Inv. Nr. T 751

81 tablets, 60/2 purple silk, DMC #5 perle cotton, Kreinik Japan #7 gold. 3.8 cm wide. Source: Pattern from band on coffin burial cloth of Berenguela, nun, 13th century. Museo de Telas Medievales, Burgos, Spain.

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