Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Hi all, As a response to the interesting web sites that Nora passes to the list, I wanted to add the following: Years ago I met Swetlana Komarova, the founder of the handweaving club Paraskeva of St. Petersburg, when she visited Holland.. At that time, she brought a very interesting booklet, a study about the "weaving traditions of the East European Slavs". The title is FABRIC-RITUAL-MAN., subtitle above. The edition of1992 was a cooperation between the State Museum odf Ethnography of St. Petersburg and "Paraskeva" The edition was sponsored by the Russian- American joint tourist firm "Astur" in St. Petersburg. Unfortunately there is no international book number. The booklet gives the history and meaning of the importance and influence of decoration on bands and woven cloth for the peasant population within the Slav traditions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are photos of tablet- and band weaving, braids and loom woven pieces, technical explanation included. One band shows a warp substitution pattern. Nearly the same pattern was found on a band from Moermansk, North Russia, of which I possess a photo. The motif appears on both sides of the band in different places, as I experienced in weaving . Marijke van Epen
-- ---------- >From: Nora Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Russian TW >Date: don, 15 jul 2004 21:44 > > Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques > > I want to pass on to all of you a very interesting web site in > Russia: www.old-chest.narod.ru/tkach.htm. It is in Russian, but you > can get a more or less understandable translation using Babel Fish on > the Web. The TW technique is transposed warps, and on this page is > very clear notation of the movement of the tablets. > > Has anyone seen this notation, or worked with this technique? I > found it mentioned in Collingwood's TTW and also in Marjorie and > William Snow's book. But neither used notation, rather descriptions > of how to do it. > > The website belongs to Tatiana Isaeva and is designed by Galina > Gorjainova, who contacted me last April through the Anne Blinks > website after looking at the Sprang page, to tell me about another > website belonging to Isaeva: > www.wool-rainbow.narod.ru/Isaeva/Isaeva_e.htm. > > I would be very happy to hear if any of you know about Russian > traditional weavings and if you know the weavers in St. Petersberg > at the Paraskeva School. They are replicating traditional textiles > from the Ukraine and Byelorussia and also using these techniques > to create modern clothing. Here is the website for the school: > www.paraskeva.sp.ru/Russian/English/school_fr_E.htm. This summer > Galina is replicating a 19th century man's shirt with a TW sash. > > Nora Rogers > Santa Cruz, CA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send private reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
