Changes

Jump to: navigation, search

Cloth Weaving Patterns

294 bytes added, 17:22, 4 November 2012
/* Twill 2/2 */
|Archaeology=
*Kildonan, Isle of Eigg: Wool and linen was found in 2/2 twill. [HENSHALL 1952 p. 15]
 
* Greenigoe, Orkney: three fragments of 2/2 twill, two were loosely woven the third was sewn to a piece of tabby weave.[HENSHALL 1952 p. 17]
 
*Skjoldehamn, Norway (~1075): All the garments were made from 2/2 twill. [LOVLID 2009, p.38]
 
* London, Milk Street and Watling Court (late C9th - early C12th): 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)
|Discussion