A String Geek's Stash

© 2023 Carolyn Priest-Dorman I was riffling through my digital collection of early knitting books one day a couple of years ago and got a ...

© 2000 Carolyn Priest-Dorman The last time I wove some motifs from the 13th century Scottish seal tag described in Audrey Henshall’s “Five ...

Please read the important update at the bottom of this post. Well, here on the Left Coast of the USA I woke up to a Viking textile controv...

Earlier today Carrie Schutrick made me aware of the University of Southampton's digital project, Knitting Reference Library , which has ...

A while back, a private book collector in the Midwest sent me a textile to examine.  It had come to him as a bookmark in a sixteenth-century...

© Carolyn Priest-Dorman, 2000 The “rippenköper,” or “repp twill,” has no standard equivalent name in English. The weave was first identif...

© Carolyn Priest-Dorman, 2003 A year ago my article “Some More Medieval Linen Weaves” presented a number of multishaft medieval liseré wea...