This was on the fiber list, and I thought some of you might be interested..... Anne Elizabeth
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- Subject: Historical spools
- From: emmel@iol.ie
- Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:06:15 -0000
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Hi there, Just a note for folks doing historic fiber re-enactment. While living in Sweden I saw in several museums, pieces of hollow bone with points on them. I had wondered what they were, as they were usually in fiber tool displays. Finally, one smaller place had a set up of fiber tools with projects on them. It seems the hollow bones with points were a vary early way of making "braid" either on two points or four. And it seems to have been done, exactly like modern spool knitting. Some of these tools go so far back that they may even pre-date more complex weaving, though no one is really sure. I've already asked my husband to make me a set of these in various sizes, next time he feels like doing bone carving. Though you wouldn't have to have anything pretty carved on them, just find a hallow bone in the right size, with the points still on it. The display pointed out that this was one of the ways that people made straps and ties for clothing, packages and just about any purpose that we would use for either decorative braiding and/or needed a stronger tie up than a single or double ply yarn would produce. Anyway, I thought it would make a very interesting part of an early fiber demonstration, and its something that I hadn't really thought about before. If anyone actually has experience with these already, please let me know. Melodi On a wet, cloudy and cold Irish afternoon To send private mail to the sender of this email mailto:emmel@iol.ie for mail to the whole list use Reply To unsubscribe mailto:majordomo@bolis.com?body=unsubscribe%20fibernet
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