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Cloth Weaving Patterns

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==Panama and half Panama==
The Panama weave is a variation on a tabby weave where the warp and the weft consist of two threads rather than one. In the half panama only the warp or the weft has a double thread, the other only having one thread. It generally appears in the selvedge rather than the entire cloth being of thise weave.
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*Elisenhof, Germany (8thC): 3 examples of a panama weave were found, all were probably form the slevedge selvedge of the fabric rahter than the entire fabric being of this weave. One of them was on the edge of a twill. [HUNDT 1981: p.8]
** One example of a half panama was also found where every second warp is double [HUNDT 1981: p. 8]
 
*Skjoldehamn, Norway: The selvedge of the blanket that was wrapped around the body had a panama weave. [LOVLID 2009: p.139]
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