Medieval Weaves
I'm a novice weaver. My interest lies primarily in reproducing medieval textile weaves using card weaving, rigid heddle, and a four-shaft floor loom.
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The purpose of this post is to give people interested in learning about medieval fabrics a visual example for comparing to commercially available fabrics.
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A lot of books and papers about medieval textile finds describe the weave, or shows images of highly deteriorated finds. This is meant as a gallery of what those textiles look like in real life! It not exhaustive, and is taking time to compile.
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Not all of these weaves are hand dyed. Where they are, it's in the description
one over, one under
Z-twill Blue warp
S-twill Blue warp
Plain weave. Wool dyed with madder Single ply
2/2 S-twill
Chevron Cotton 2/8 24 epi
2/8 cotton 24 epi
36epi; 2/20 blue wool
Yellow blue 2/20 wool 36 epi
Broken diamond 2/2 twill Wool. 48 epi/sett
Houndstooth. 2/2 twill with colour patterning. Houndstooth is not found in the medieval period, but it was found in an iron age bog find in Sweden. Dyed with woad and fustic
2/2 twill horizontal herringbone in 2/16 wool. 36 epi/sett