MAHTAVA TABLET WEAVING For historical reenactment and LARP
Tablet weaving has been our passion and our work for over 18 years.
We offer custom and ready-made tablet woven trims, belts, leg wraps and headbands for reenactors of broadly defined Iron Age and Early Middle Ages. These bands will make perfect embellishment for your historical garment. Some of these card woven braids are based on archaeological finds, some are possible interpretations of barely visible pattern on a piece of textile that miraculously survived till our times. Others are just our fantasy yet as probable as anything else.
Tablet woven band for historical reenactment, Birka inspired...
Tablet weaving is an ancient technique (about 3000 years old) of making decorative clothes borders from wool, linen, silk, horsehair, silver and gold threads or whatever other material they had access to at the time. Tablet woven bands were used in the past as trims, belts, headbands or leg wraps. Compared to metal finds not many tablet woven pieces have survived to our times but those which have and can now be seen in museums all over Europe show variety of patterns, from simple geometric to very complex heraldic.
When preparing for your new event season and making yourself a new historical outfit please take into account that we need about two weeks to weave your ordered product. The delivery time takes another 2-3 weeks depending on the continent you live on.
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