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Instructions and Graphs for Tablet-Woven Calligraphy
by Linda Hendrickson
$28.00 + $5.00 for packing & postage
Watch my videos to see how I weave letters and to view the pangram bands used to illustrate the letters in my book.
144 pages, comb-bound. Instructions for the double-faced weave, and graphs for letters based on six Roman alphabets: Uncial, the early Christian alphabet; Textura Quadrata, a 14th century Gothic hand; 15th century Humanist Bookhand; Italic, the fine Italian hand; Legend, a typeface with an Arabic feeling designed by Ernst Schneidler; and Gill Sans, a modern sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill. For each alphabet, several words are graphed and ready to use, including peace, hope, love, and weave.
Instead of weaving each alphabet from a to z, I have composed and woven pangrams, sentences that contain all the letters of the alphabet. The book also includes a tutorial for using Excel to create graphs.
A note for tablet weaving teachers: If you would like to use this book in your classes, please contact me for details.
Graphs for each of the alphabets listed above are also available separately in pdf format, $ 6.00 plus 5% transaction fee
Graphs for Upper and Lower Case Letters Based on Gill Sans
by Linda Hendrickson
PDF format, $ 6.00 plus 5% transaction fee.
Please e-mail me to order the PDF.
Graphs for both upper and lower case letters based on Gill Sans , using 24 tablets. The lower case letters are from my book, Please Weave a Message.
This PDF does not include information on how to read the graphs or weave. If you need this information, it is covered in Please Weave a Message, or you can click here to order the Double-Faced Tablet Weaving Workshop Handout PDF.
Watch my video Tablet Weaving: Graphing and Weaving Letters to see how I weave letters in the double-faced weave.
A note for tablet weaving teachers: If you would like to use these graphs in your classes, please contact me for details.
Double-Faced Tablet Weaving: 50 Designs from Around the World
by Linda Hendrickson
$21.00 + $5.00 for packing & postage
120 pages, comb-bound. Complete instructions for making a continuous warp and for the double-faced weave, large graphs with a helpful tablet count field, front and back of all designs shown full-size, tips for avoiding and correcting mistakes and for graphing your own designs. Designs are from the crafts of many different cultures and times, and a reference for the source of inspiration is listed for each design. Most designs need 48 tablets, and some need 56 tablets. Examples of inspiration include a fanciful monkey from a Nazca shirt (Peru), interlaced designs from Bushongo cut pile raffia cloth (Zaire), Hmong reverse applique (Laos), Medieval embroidery (Finland), Bedouin tent hangings (Jordan), and Pueblo pottery (USA).
If you aren't hooked on double-faced by this book, you are probably unhookable!
-- Peter Collingwood, in the foreword to the book.
I have grouped graphs from this book into several Design Collections in
pdf format Scroll down on my Tablet Weaving PDFs page to see them.
A note for tablet weaving teachers: If you would like to use this book in your classes, please contact me for details.
Tablet Weaving for Parents and Children
by Linda Hendrickson
$5.00 + $3.00 for packing and postage
Also available in PDF format $ 4.00 plus 5% transaction fee
Please e-mail me to order the PDF.
16 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", self-published in 1995. An easy and inexpensive way for anyone to get started with tablet weaving. Complete instructions for making a continuous warp, how to flip and rotate the tablets for geometric designs in warp twining, step-by-step directions for weaving a flat band and a seamless tube. Ideas for weaving a friendship bracelet, shoelaces, and bookmarks.
Watch my video on how to make a continuous warp .
A note for tablet weaving teachers: If you would like to use this book in your classes, please contact me for details.
Two-Hole Andean Pebble Weave for ages 10 and up
by Linda Hendrickson
$8.00 + $3.00 for packing and postage including shipping
Also available in PDF format $ 7.00 plus 5% transaction fee
Please e-mail me to order the PDF.
28 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", self-published in 2004. This booklet is a follow-up to my article "Tablet Weaving with Children", Handwoven, November/December 2003, p. 43. Complete instructions for making a continuous warp for pebble weave, and for weaving charming traditional Andean designs with tablets. I created the graphs by analyzing bands in my collection from Peru, and also designed an alphabet for this booklet. Several words are graphed and ready to weave. All graphs are for 16 tablets. The normal corner holes are not used. Instead, use a hole puncher to make holes in the center of two adjacent edges (or you can order the tablets with extra holes). Each tablet carries one dark and one light thread. To weave, just turn the tablets individually or in groups to make the top of the shed match the row of the graph.
A note for tablet weaving teachers: If you would like to use this book in your classes, please contact me for details.
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This page was updated on October 6, 2023.