Anglo-Saxon - or Split Pack Card Weaving Technique

Gudrun Polak

This page shows pictures of an article that I published in TWIST, Spring 2007.

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Figure 1: Replica

Diagram 1: Front      Diagram 2: Back

Diagram 3: Threading

4-Color Band

Diagram 4: Threading of 4-color example

Diagram 5: Diagonal lines and turns


Figure 2: Front and back - random pattern

Egyptian Diagonals


Figure 3: Front and back of the same band

References

[ABC] Anne Blinks Collection    Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild.
http://www.santacruzhandweavers.org/anneblinks/TW.html
[TTW] Collingwood, Peter:    The Techniques of Tablet Weaving. Page 121/122
Robin & Russ Handweavers, 1996
[CPD] Carolyn Priest-Dorman    A Saxon Threaded-In Tablet Weave.
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/saxontw.html