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Cloth Weaving Patterns

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* London, Milk Street and Watling Court (late C9th - early C12th): Nine examples of tabby weave were found. Three were died with madder. Three had weft stripes. [PRITCHARD 1984: p. 52]
:Some of the goat hair cloth was also in a tabby weave. [PRITCHARD 1984: p. 59]
*York, Coppergate: 14 fragment of wool were of simple tabby weave. [WALTON 1989: p.318]
*Elisenhof, Germany: 162 fragments of tabby were found. [WALTON 1989: p.333]
* London, Milk Street and Watling Court (late C9th - late C10th): Two examples of 2/2 twill were found. One had a thicker thread in every third weft, which was dyed red with madder the other weft threads were dyed blue. The other fragment was of natural brown wool. [PRITCHARD 1984: p. 56]
*York, Coppergate: 6 wool fragments were of non-reversed 2/2 twill. Some were so small that they may have been from a chevron or diamond twill, but no pattern is recognisable in the preserved fragments. Two were dyed with madder. [WALTON 1989: p.321]
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*Birka: 58 fragments of woollen cloth were found woven in diamond twill. Most of these were dyed (dark brown, black, blue, green. All were of one colour.
* York, Coppergate: 6 cases of diamond weave wool were found. two were dyed with madder. [WALTON 1989: p.329]
* Orkney, Greenigoe: 1 Fragment of diamond twill [HENSHALL 1952: p.17]
*Birka: 2 fragments of woollen cloth were found woven in herringbone weave.
* York, Coppergate: 6 cases of herringbone weave wool were found. One fragment was small and may have been from a diamond weave. In five of these the pattern is in the warp rather than in the weft. One was dyed lichen purple and another was dyed with woad. Another fragment had a dark warp and a light weft, which makes the herringbone pattern very visible. [WALTON 1989: p.324]
* London, Milk Street and Watling Court (late C9th - early C12th): Six examples of herringbone weave were found. Two were dyed with lichen purplel, one with woad and one possibly with both lichen and woad. [PRITCHARD 1984:p.53]
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*York, Coppergate: One example (Fragment 1304) of a Kreuzkoper was found. [WALTON 1989: p.329]
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*York, Coppergate: two of the tabby wools were piled. [WALTON 1989: p.319]
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