SMASH THE SHELL

Another attempt at a tablet weaving pattern; this time I tried the Narrow Oseberg Band using information from Shelagh Lewins’s site. This one doesn’t have a built-in way to remove built up twist, so I ended up having to reverse the pattern periodically because I chose to use a frame loom.

If I had set up something with a longer exposed warp, and maybe used swivels to anchor the warp on the far end, this might have been less frustrating. The pattern looks great, and the yellow linen really “pops,” but I ended up setting aside the work in progress for several years and finally just cutting the project off the loom and discarding the remaining warp. I originally intended it to be much longer, but I only got through 5 feet of weaving.