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Cloth Weaving Patterns

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*York, Lloyds Bank: 9 textiles of tabby weave were found. 8 were woollen and one was silk. [HEDGES 1982: p.102]
*York, Coppergate 5: Only one piece of silk was of plain tabby weave. [HEDGES 1982: p. 125]
*Elisenhof, Germany(8thC): 162 62 fragments of tabby were found. 9 had z-spun threads in both warp and weft the other 53 had tight z-spun threads in the warp and loose woven s-threads in the weft. [HUNDT 1981: p.4] 9 fragments had different natural coloured threads in the warp and weft [WALTON 1989HUNDT 1981: p.3337]
*Birka, Sweden: 17 of the 89 wool fragments described by Geijer were of a tabby weave. And all of the 11 linen fragments described were also tabbies. One of the linen fragments was blue and white checked. [GEIJER 1938: p.14, 21, 35]