Band 2 from Tablet-Woven Treasures (page 105) is finished. I used spindle spun Swifter again.

This band I wove with the technique of the ‘Iron Age Swivels’ I described in the previous post. The ‘Iron Age Swivels’ worked very well. It is easy weaving, when there is no need to turn the tablets or the weaving direction.
The band is as wide as specified in the book, 7 milimeter. It is 65 centimeters long.

The yarn I spun for this band, is much smoother then before. I will make a seperate post about the changes I made to get this better weaving yarn.

To test a bit more with the those string swivels, I want to make a much longer warp for band 3. I think I will make a warp with a length of 2 meters. I am curious to see how the ‘Iron Age Swivels’ hold up when the warp is longer.

(For sake of clarity: I talk about ‘Iron Age Swivels’ in a casual way. It is not a technique that is based on an archeological find. It is a technique I use to achieve the result of ‘a band without turns of direction’, without the use of modern means like iron swivels. So it is a ‘sticks and string’ technique based on the principle that twist travels to the thinnest point).

This is a post about weaving Finnish Iron Age bands with spindle spun weaving yarn. I weave the bands listed in the book ‘Tablet Woven Treasures, Archaeological Bands from the Finnish Iron Age’ by Karisto & Pasanen (2021), one by one in the order of the book.