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This page has been created to share my weaving research. I have reasearched many forms of weaving used during and prior to the Middle Ages. I hope many medieval re-enactors will find this inromation useful.

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My Weaving Structure History Timeline HTML or Read Only Excel Document

My Weaving Stucture Graphic Organizer, showing at what time different structures first appeared in Europe, the Middle/Near East and Asia.

The Textile Museum in Lyon houses many extant weaving peices. I hope to make it there some day, so keep an eye out for photos.
Carolyn Priest has written an excellent article on the Birka textiles.

Wickelbander Article by Peter Beatson

Anglo-Saxon Cyrtel Bibliiography
Carolyn Preist-Dorman's Viking Resources for the Re-enactor
Inkle Weaving.com
Medieval Textiles Organization
Anna Liese's Fibers and Stuff
Phiala's String Page
The Textiles in the Osberg Ship by Anne Stine Ingstad
Weaving Pattern Generation Site
Tapestry Weaving Basic Instructions
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