Creating with Card Weaving: A Simple, Non-Loom Technique

Specht, Sally;Rawlings, Sandra

ISBN 10: 0517503794 / ISBN 13: 9780517503799

Published by Crown Publishers, Inc., 1973

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0517503794 Former library copy with usual library markings, including card pocket on inside back cover. Cover corners are worn through to boards. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 028002

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating with Card Weaving: A Simple, Non-Loom Technique
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517503794
• ISBN 13: 9780517503799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crafts and Games

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Synopsis

Card or tablet weaving is a very ancient and widespread off-loom (no loom is required) weaving method of weaving narrow bands of fabric using flat cards with holes punched in them. Some archaeologists speculate that card weaving dates back to approximately 4,000 B.C. because certain patterns which lend themselves to card weaving appear often in ancient Egyptian carvings. However, this does not seem to be sufficient evidence to support knowledge of the technique. The oldest cards found in Egypt are a set of twenty-five 4-holed wooden ones believed to have come from the Coptic Period (400-600 A. D.). What is known is that card weaving has been known from Japan, China through Asia to North African and north through Europe as far as Iceland.