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13 February 2023

Vintage Knitting Pattern: Knitted Fringe

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© 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 ...
17 October 2017

Double-Faced Designs on a 7-Block Grid with Radial Symmetry

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© 2000 Carolyn Priest-Dorman The last time I wove some motifs from the 13th century Scottish seal tag described in Audrey Henshall’s “Five ...
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12 October 2017

Viking Age Tablet Weaving: Kufic or Not?

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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...
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19 July 2017

Know Your Vintage Knitting Yarns

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Earlier today Carrie Schutrick made me aware of the University of Southampton's digital project, Knitting Reference Library , which has ...
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31 July 2015

An Old Band-Woven Bookmark

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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...
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01 July 2015

2/1 Twills: Rippenköper

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© Carolyn Priest-Dorman, 2000 The “rippenköper,” or “repp twill,” has no standard equivalent name in English. The weave was first identif...
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28 June 2015

Two Asymmetrical Pavy Weaves

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