Mitake / Anna Ridley contacted me about obtaining some of these fabric scraps as she made "little pouches with tablet-woven edges", and could use some of the wool for this project. I didn't think much about it, but was glad that more of these scraps wouldn't end up in a landfill. I sent her a box of scraps and thought no more of it.
Low and behold, today I receive a Priority Mail envelope with one of her lovely creations inside! She thought I "might like to have one" since I sent her the fabric.

This is AMAZING!!! The pouches' side edges are closed with lovely (and nicely done) integral tablet weaving; at the top, the weaving splits in 2 and covers the top edge of the pouch. The pouches' strings are made of incredibly fine tablet woven strings, and the bottom edge is finished with 3 tassels. It looks just like the ones in the MOL books!

This was a *wonderful* suprise and I'm absolutely tickled about the whole thing!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you Mitake!!!

Gwen
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On 01-21-2001 12:48 AM, AnnaRidley responds:

Gwen -

glad you liked the pouch. It's loosely based on a couple of pouches in the Museum of London. One of these days I'll get my notes about them on the web.

Mitake.
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On 01-22-2001 11:21 AM, Anne-Marie posts

Originally posted by AnnaRidley:
Gwen -
glad you liked the pouch. It's loosely based on a couple of pouches in the Museum of London. One of these days I'll get my notes about them on the web.
Mitake.

I've made one of those too....but am unhappy with the closure. What do you use to close the pouchlet? Right now I just have a piece of thread running through the tablet weaving, but its flimsy and doesnt really stay closed well.
so, oh expert, what didyou do?
--AM who uses her for dice and gambling money

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On 01-22-2001 11:46 AM, AnnaRidley posts-

Originally posted by Anne-Marie:
I've made one of those too....but am unhappy with the closure.

I use a double drawstring placed about 1/2" down from the top edge. Recently for the strings I've been using one of the flat finger loop braids, the green dorge, but any of the smaller ones seem to work well. I use an awl to open a hole without cutting the fibers and thread the braid through loops first.

An example of this would be the pouch on the table in the Merode Altarpiece.

If you use an even number of holes on each side, I find six works well, then the pouch will collapse into even pleats when closed.
I'll try and post a couple of pictures tonight.

Contact Jamie who posts on this forum. He makes some way cool bone dice, and he doesn't charge a lot for them.

This particular pouch is wool edged with silk. Instead of sewing up the pouch and applying the weaving, the pouch is sewn as the weaving is done. Kind of a whip stitch that happens to pass through the shed of the weaving.

The drawstrings are actually a finger loop braid called the greene dorge. It's a braid of six loops that works up flat.

Of course, so does your tablet weaving. Maybe I'm just not cut out for the textile arts...

Happy dance, happy dance, happy dance!

they're neat pouches. attagirl for making 'em!

--AM

Thanks-

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Originally posted by hauptfrau:
Mitake, is there an online source of instructions for the green dorge?

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Not really, I'll try to post the instructions in another thread.
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I've posted the instructions over in the lifestyles forum http://www.wolfeargent.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000079.html

Please let me know if you they are not clear or you have any other questions.