Tablet weaving
Tablet weavingTitle
Tablet weaving
Description
Textile woven on a tablet of catalog cards.
Card weaving is a very old technique, dating back to the fourth-century BC. What fascinates me with the technique is that it is a simple way to travel with my weaving and the patterning can get complicated quite quickly. What is distinctive about this kind of weaving is that the warp has a twist to it. The material is typically used for strong bands and decorative borders. I had 120 library cards drilled by a local printer . . . and then bonded 5 cards together to make one tablet. There are 24 tablets in this deck. The pattern is created by rotating the cards forward and backward. More complicated patterns can be achieved by flipping the cards or even "shuffling" them. As alumna, I wanted to play with the golden color. I was traveling in Arizona when I bought the materials for this project, and all I could think of at the time was delicious Iowa sweet corn.
Creator
Orgren, Sally
Publisher
University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Date
2005
2006-11-14
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
Rights
Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the University of Iowa Libraries' Special Collections Department, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the Special Collections Department.
Relation
cARTalog
cARTalog Collection
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0859
Format
jpeg
Language
eng
Type
Still image
Tablet weaving
Identifier
173618284