Ecclesiastical Pomp & Aristocratic Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tablewoven Bands

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Summary: A Must For Scadians
Review: As a Scadian i am costantly searching for peroid and DOCUMENTED patterns. Well this is the MECA of all of them. Documentation and pattern in one. I am very glad i got this book and will recomend it to everyone.

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Summary: Excellent Resource for Historical Recreation
Review: The first hundred pages of this ~300 page book deal with the history of tabletwoven bands: who made them and why, where they were used, design sources, historical tablets and looms, and some technical information about the bands. The next ~170 pages lists historical bands. Each listing gives culture, time-period, materials, and any other information available. Many (most?) also have a pattern for the design. The last couple dozen pages are the note and bibliography. I found this to be an excellent source of both general and specific information about historical tablet-woven bands. It is also obviously aimed at those who wish to recreate for themselves something documentably from times long ago.