270823, 653 PM Snartmo tl Weaving Istucbons The Tablet Woven Band from the Snartemo IT Grave ‘This document is provided as is without any express or implied warranties. While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained, the author assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use ofthe information ‘contained herein Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies ofthis decument for non-commercial private research pusposes provided the ‘copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Website mirroring is permilled by express prior errangement. Permission will only be granted ifthe document is posted init entirety and the content and format ofthe document remain completely unaltered by the ‘mirroring site. The definitive version of this document can be found at http:/ww-shelaghlewins com. Copyright © 2008 Shelagh Lewin. Introduction ‘The Snartemo II bund is easy to weave and looks smart. The original was woven in wool using 17 tablets and two colours of fine wool Itis an example of two-hole weave. Figure 1: My reproduction of the Snartemo II band. Click for a larger picture. Figure 2: The pattern woven in linen with an eight-tablet border. Click for a larger picture. The Historic Band Lise Raeder Knudson very kindly provided the following information about the original band, and confirmed that my reconstructed is correctly ‘woven, The colours I used are a guess but are reasonably consistent with the information supplied by Lise- I assumed that the colours were brighter when the band was new. rhe Snartemo burials yielded wo graves with well preserved textile remains and several tablet weavings. The dating is about 500 A.D. The finding place is Haxgebostad in the southern part of Norway: Snartemo II was a rich grave which among many other things contained a small ‘tablet woven band in 2 colors with a simple threaded in pattern {In Bjorn Hougens book "Snartemofunnene” 1935 a drawing is shown, but the analysis is not correct. Ihave studied the original find and made a ‘new analysis. Unfortunately [haven't done muck about trying to translate and publish my thesis, so tis not commercially availabe, ‘The band's width is 0.9 em. The colours looks very much alike, but under a microscope there isa difference between the yarns. Unfortunately there are no dye analyses Yet.” Lise provided a picture ofthe threading diagram (below) with the accompanying text "24 times forward, 24 times backwards ete 17 tablets, 5 with 4 threads, 12 with 2 threads, 5 edge tablets, ane ofthese invisible and presumably used ina kind of invisible sewing mounting to cloth." a oe hnlps:[Link].convablel_weaving/Snarlemo_lWsnarteme_ILhtm 422125123, 853 PM Snartmo II Weaving Instuctons, Figure 3: Threading of original band. Threading Pattern Tablets: ‘The band is woven using twelve pattem tablets, Each is threaded identically and continuous warping is (as usual!) recommended ‘Thread each tablet with one light and one dark thread, in opposite comers. Leave the other two holes empty. Arrange the tablets according to the picture below. Tablets 4-6 ate a mitrr image of tablets 1-3, Tablets 7-12 are a repeat of 1-6. 5 Figure 4: Threading and arrangement of pattern tablets. Border Tablets ‘A border is essential to keep the band stable and give ita firm edge. The original band had a border of two tablets on one side and three on the other. The extra border tablet is invisible and I have woven my band with a border of two tablets on each side, alternately threaded S, Z. All ‘border tablets are threaded with four threads of the dark pattern colout. Weaving Weave by turing all tablets forwards together. Be careful when turing: because of the unthreaded holes, the tablets are unstable and will tend to «drop and tum rather than stay in position, Tie a piece of string around the tablets whenever you pause weaving and you should be ok. After 24 tums, you will have woven 6 ofthe "W" motifs. Make sure you start counting atthe end of @ "W" - check the picture of the woven band ‘or reference. Then flip every pattem cablet so thatthe treading is reversed - S tablets become Z and vice versa, This will everse the pattem for the next 24 picks. Repeat! Instead of flipping the tablets you could of course tum the patter tables backwards and the border tablets forwards for 24 picks. Both methods ‘will produce exactly the same woven band: there is no way to tell which method was used to Weave the original. I personally find it hard to ‘remember whether I should be turning forwards or backwards and so prefer to flip all the tablets and always turn forwards ‘When the threads of the border tablets become significantly twisted, flip them so that S becomes Z and vice versa. As you continue to weave, the Dorder tablets will gradually untwist hnlps:[Link].convablel_weaving/Snarlemo_lWsnarteme_ILhtm 22