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By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Damask Trim

Damask Trim
A red warp woven with a purple weft that creates the bacground with dots and a ivy/tree motif

185 warp threads

Wound separate waste warp of various cotton yarns to ensure I could weave as much of  the silk warp as possible. This technique worked really well, I had very little waste of the silk yarn!

By Jahanara, 30 July, 2021

Handwoven Persian Robe

Handwoven Persian Robe
A woman wearing a blue handwoven rove6

I set out to weave cloth to make a 7th C Persian Robe based on several extant robes I have found online and seen depicted on many Sasanian Silverworks. When I began my costuming research I found a number of images of Sasanian women in a variety of sources.

By Jahanara, 30 July, 2021

Damask cowl

Damask cowl
Me wearing a purple damask cowl with black lotus and rise motifs

8 meters 21"

Pattern Notes Rose pattern from Spies 7th C Egyptian pg. 131.

30/2 gemstone silk

36-40 epi

First sample 40 epi in 15 dent reed 2-3-3, see reed substitution chart

Second sample 20 epi reed 2-3-3

177 units of 8

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Tapestry Roundel

Tapestry Roundel
a round piece of tapestry woven with a purple border a yellow inner circle and a purple 6 petaled open lotus in the middle.

I have been wanting to tapestry weave a roundel for years. Weaving a circle is one of the most difficult tapestry weaving techniques and it has taken me a while to build up to attempting a roundel. I have woven this roundel using my SCA heraldry.

By Jahanara, 30 July, 2021

Damask Apprentice Belt

Damask Apprentice Belt
Close up of dark abd light green damask cloth with a circle made of dots and a rise motif with the circle

Warp Yarn: 
30/2 Gemstone Silk Forest Green
Sett: 
36epi
Picks: 
36ppi
Weft yarn: 
30/2 Gemstone Silk Light Green
Length on Loom: 
7Yards
Width on Loom: 
6 inches
Extant Textile Inspiration: 
Syrian silk damask

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Taquete Pillow

Taquete Pillow
A pillow made of weft faced woven cloth in a yellow background rows of green ivy then rows of purple frett leaves

Warp Yarn: 
Organic Cotton
Sett: 
10epi
Picks: 
20ppi
Weft yarn: 
2/11 wool
Notes: 
Historical information
 

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Royal Artisan Collar Liner

Royal Artisan Collar Liner
A grey white silk warp with small diamond motifs

I am making this to line the Drachenwald Royal Artisan Collar, so it can be pinned to costumes and so as not to chafe if worn next to the skin.This is based on a piece of damask I studied at the Clothworker's Centre London.

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

2/1 Diamond Twill Hood

2/1 Diamond Twill Hood
A man with a beard wearing a hood with a v hemline the hood is made of handwoven point twill in grey and blue

11th Century Scandinavian Hood
Handwoven Fabric for 11th C Scandinavian Hoods
By: Jahanarabanu Vivana (EM Jones)
Materials
Wool-
o JC Rennie Shetland 11/2 S-spun

Colours: Blue and Grey- this blue can be achieved using indigo (Regia Colour

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Taquete thank you gift bags

Taquete thank you gift bags
A weft faced woven small bag with a checkered pattern in light and dark purple.

Warp Yarn: 
Organic Cotton
Sett: 
8epi
Weft yarn: 
2/11 wool
Width: 
9inches
Length: 
6
Width on Loom: 
10 inches
Length: 
6inches
Extant Textile Inspiration: 
Akhim green taquete
Notes: 

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Taquete Sample 1

Taquete Sample 1
A cloth with a yellow background from bottom to top teal fretts, purple ivyu, blue waves, and green leaves motifs.

These are my first taquete samples. These samples were woven on my drawloom as part of an experiment to see how weaving taquete would work on a drawloom. There is much debate as to whether there sumptous fabrics were woven on the drawloom or using heddle rods.

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Damask Samples

Damask Samples
A grey cotton warp with a tree and dots motif, motif is in grey and backgrounds are purple then red.

These are the first samples I have produced on my drawloom. It took me ages to get my drawloom set up, but now that it is ready to go I'm cruising along and having a lot of fun! Here are my samples so far. I will come back and write more about each one soon!

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Linen Blanket

Linen Blanket
a blanket with stripes of dark teal, light teach, and purple in both warp and weft

Width:  32inches
Length:  36
Notes: 
This was woven in 2010 for Baroness Suibhan's first daughter. They have gotten much use of it. :)

This blanket is linen woven in twill, though now I know that nearly all linen finds from the Middle Ages were woven in plain weave.

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Family Hoods

Family Hoods

The woven fabric has been used to create a pair hoods my husband, myself, and incidentally our son who often ends up wearing the unlined hood. The hood design is based on the Skjoldehamn hood (Løvlid, 2009). This hood was carbon dated to 995-1029 AD (Løvlid, 2009).

By Jahanara, 31 July, 2021

Diamond Twill Fabric

Diamond Twill Fabric

This diamond twill fabric will be made into garb for our family. I started by warping the loom with a solid blue warp, threaded as a broken point twill. I then wove a sample using every colour wool I own in the same size, so everyone in the family could choose their preferred weft.

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