I love all the sounds I can hear in this reconstruction of an ancient vertical loom: thump, hiss & clack of the loom sword (but no clinking of loom weights!) I can also hear birds, (cheeping birds, turtledoves, jackdaws, crows), men's voices, wind, dogs barking, sheep bells, shepherd's call, crickets and the rhythmical creak of some kind of wheel... What could it be?
Been doing research into ancient textile methods. This is a very good video of a primitive warp weighted loom. Something i intend to try is the old viking method of using card weaving to create the warp spacing for this style of loom. What you do is card weave a starter strip, and the weft of the card weaving gets drawn out after each pick and looped around warping pegs. so that when the woven band is completed, it becomes an integral part of the finished textile, which is attached to the top beam on this style loom, and the weft becomes the warp held down by weights and you weave the rest of the textile as normal.
When I was young I always wondered why there were pretty little hems on bolts of cloth that were made in the traditional Germanic method (note; vikings weren't big on weaving, given the word literally means 'raider' - they were big on going a viking however!) and it still boggles my mind people would go to such effort. Spjaldtolva or tablet weaving is an ancient and mostly forgotten (besides a recent resurgence outside of small towns) method of weaving that is just as tedious and mind numbing as weaving. So wasting hours to make something that was just a hem seemed mad. But they really saw their work as precious. What they did mattered, and helped their people and community. Now in the machine age nothing we do matters and we aren't allowed to have a people. It's disheartening.
I love all the sounds I can hear in this reconstruction of an ancient vertical loom: thump, hiss & clack of the loom sword (but no clinking of loom weights!) I can also hear birds, (cheeping birds, turtledoves, jackdaws, crows), men's voices, wind, dogs barking, sheep bells, shepherd's call, crickets and the rhythmical creak of some kind of wheel... What could it be?
Been doing research into ancient textile methods. This is a very good video of a primitive warp weighted loom. Something i intend to try is the old viking method of using card weaving to create the warp spacing for this style of loom. What you do is card weave a starter strip, and the weft of the card weaving gets drawn out after each pick and looped around warping pegs. so that when the woven band is completed, it becomes an integral part of the finished textile, which is attached to the top beam on this style loom, and the weft becomes the warp held down by weights and you weave the rest of the textile as normal.
When I was young I always wondered why there were pretty little hems on bolts of cloth that were made in the traditional Germanic method (note; vikings weren't big on weaving, given the word literally means 'raider' - they were big on going a viking however!) and it still boggles my mind people would go to such effort. Spjaldtolva or tablet weaving is an ancient and mostly forgotten (besides a recent resurgence outside of small towns) method of weaving that is just as tedious and mind numbing as weaving. So wasting hours to make something that was just a hem seemed mad. But they really saw their work as precious. What they did mattered, and helped their people and community. Now in the machine age nothing we do matters and we aren't allowed to have a people. It's disheartening.
I want to live that way (:>
me too
Good idea never though of this. Good idea from jodie
NO WAY they were this SLOW