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Inkle bands are quite strong and can be used in applications where a flat band is desired. Popular modern uses are guitar and camera straps, or, for particularly narrow bands, colorful shoelaces. [8] Traditionally, inkle bands also served as belts and reins. Weaving on a frame loom in Turkistan, 1865
Tablet weaving, Finland (image of finished band). Side view of tablet weaving. Tablet weaving (often card weaving in the United States) is a weaving technique where tablets or cards are used to create the shed through which the weft is passed. As the materials and tools are relatively cheap and easy to obtain, tablet weaving is popular with ...
Soumak is a type of flat weave, somewhat resembling kilim, but with a stronger and thicker weave, a smooth front face and a ragged back, where kilim is smooth on both sides. Soumak lacks the slits characteristic of kilim, as it is usually woven with supplementary weft threads as continuous supports.
A fabric band that meets this definition of cloth (warp threads with a weft thread winding between) can also be made using other methods, including tablet weaving, back strap loom, or other techniques that can be done without looms. [2] The way the warp and filling threads interlace with each other is called the weave.
The wide, flat stick is a sword batten; it is inserted lengthwise into each shed, and used to clear the shed, get it wide open and smooth, and to batten. [6] Weaving a silk rebozo with a dyed-warp pattern on a backstrap loom, Taller Escuela de Rebocería in Santa María del Río, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Key chains, friendship bands and other trinkets are most commonly woven, although more complicated shapes and figures can also be created. [ 2 ] Most of the knots used in scoubidou were already used in bast fibre , while the creations possible with scoubidou are similar to traditional corn dollies and macrame .
Undated Ho-Chunk heddle for beadwork bands, Wisconsin, USA. Three different types of heddles: a wire, flat steel, and a repair heddle Inserted eye wire heddles Patent model of a mechanized loom with string heddles. A heddle or heald is an integral part of a loom.
A dhurrie (also dhurri, durrie, durry or dari) is an Indian or Pakistani handwoven rug or a thin flat carpet, an item of home furnishing. The dhurries have unique designs inspired by the state of origin such as multicolor stripes, one of the most popular patterns. Dhurrie weaving was a big industry in rural India.