Reconstruction of the tablet-woven bands E32132 and E32095 from Louvre - the evidence of the reverse sides
In my last post I mentioned how seeing the reverse side of the band changed my opinion on its pattern. Today I want to write about more bands from the Louvre collections, which according to their obverse (right) sides looked like they had been made by the same weaving technique, but their reverse sides told a different story. The pattern of the band E32132 is similar to another band from Antinoé, currently in Lyon museum, which was analysed by Silvia "Aisling" Ungerechts . The main difference is that only two colours were used in the Lyon band, but three in the Louvre band. I suspected that the technique would be similar, but did not know at first how to add the third colour into the pattern created for the tablets threaded with two threads only. Therefore I tried several different approaches. This first set of experiments showed me that red threads need to be opposite white and yellow threads. As the warp threads pass over one weft only, I positioned the tablets on th...