Laces made of good yarn

ByThe haberdashery

I decided to finally remind myself and show that I still weave 😉

I present a selvedge made based on the find from Opole in my color version.

The selvedge is 8.3 m long and 1.7 cm wide.

Material provided by Joanna Hajduk. The yarn is very thin, single-twisted, hand-spun and dyed with madder.

The description of the find is in the book: Early medieval textiles from excavations in Opole / Jerzy Maik, 1991. The photo and detailed analysis were made by Alice. She also added an encouragement to help yourself :).

I just noticed that there seem to be two borders similar to this one missing from the blog. I don't see me bragging about them anywhere – horror! 😉 they're only on picasa.

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