Tablet Weaving Interest Group at LDWS

Handy Tablet Weaving Resources

Websites:

https://jumaka.com/2019/02/card-weaving/.
Uses the same threading conventions used by the Twisted Threads pattern site.

https://www.tabletweavers.org
Tablet Weavers’ International Studies and Techniques (TWIST). Online journal (3 issues/year) US$10. Access to back issues and pattern library.

https://stringcrafter.com/
This website has some free patterns. The instructions are very easy to follow

Youtube videos:

Weaving a loop for a handle.
Linda Hendrickson “Weaving a loop handle for a dog leash” 2018 https://youtu.be/WxYF4hPXvWA

Graphing letters (double-faced weaving).
Linda Hendrickson “Tablet weaving: graphing and weaving letters” 2012 https://youtu.be/UGDykk6PFZQ

Fishing swivels
Elewys of Finchingefeld “Table weaving tutorial: getting untwisted with fishing swivels” 2021. https://youtu.be/NobGq4Me9os

KnowKnots “Perfect tablet weaving tension EVERYTIME!” 2018 https://youtu.be/lP5KvgTKwj8 Meg’s favourite.

Weaving pattern is on reverse side. “Why is my tablet weaving pattern on the bottom?? Answered!“ https://youtu.be/fWEnNN5SX1c

Anything by Elewys of Finchingefeld, such as “tablet weaving for the absolute beginner”. https://youtu.be/ooNOYUtc2ek

Books: (and where you can borrow them)

Crockett, Candace (1991). Card Weaving. Penguin.

Wollny, Claudia (2019). Tablets at Work. Germany. ISBN 978-3-00-057567-9. http://www.brettchenweben.com. (Meg)

Snow, Marjorie and William (1973). Step by step tablet weaving. Golden Press: NY. (Meg)

Collingwood, Peter. (1982; 2015). The techniques of tablet weaving. Echo Point Books & Media: Brattleboro, VT. (Meg)

Pattern software/sources: 

There are others but I haven’t checked them out. 

twistedthreads.org – very clear descriptions of threading/card orientation, turning, etc. You don’t have to download or guess at anything if you read the descriptions on each pattern. There is a Facebook site and an online newsletter (US$10/yr) associated with the user group. 

 GTT patterns https://www.guntram.co.za/tabletweaving/gtt.htm. Guntrum’s Tabletweaving Thingy 

Downloadable software that uses its own set of conventions for threading, turning, etc. that is NOT the same as Wollny or Twisted Threads use.

– many patterns shown on Pinterest use the GTT conventions. You can usually spot them by the yellow section on the right with a numbered list of which cards to turn forward and backwards. S and Z refers to the threading slant and not the tablet slant.

– see Youtube video by KnowKnots “Tablet weaving: how to read a GTT pattern”