Post by paweaver on Jun 17, 2008 7:55:21 GMT -5
beaudro,
I'm glad that you like the straps and are using them. When Loren brought in his very first braintan hide to me. The first thing I said is Wow! I want to braid with this. It stills beats any other material for braiding. Just my humble opinion.
I went to paleoplanet and posted just to see if I could get a reply from any other people who twine. I got no response from anyone who twines themselves. Thanks for the search words weft twining... that brought up some sites I had not seen before. It seems that overseas some twining is done on a ground loom.
I've spent a lot of time last year studying the old rag twined rugs that were made in the US years ago. I found no record of a ground loom being used. Window frames, wagon wheels, and some very interesting things, but no ground loom. This year I've moved into studying the twined bags... mostly in the Great Lakes region. Those three new mag. were very interesting. I will have to post the titles latter, as we had someone come over yesterday and all my projects got moved to another room for hiding. I'll just share two things that I found very interesting.
1. Lewis and Clark were amazed at the twine bags that they saw on their trip. They tried to buy them, but the Natives would not part with them very willingly. They were only able to bring one twined bag back. Boy would I love to know where that one bag is today.
2. Twined bags were not an item that was sold very often. They took a long time to make, and were very highly valued. They were something that was "gifted" to another, or exchanged at a marriage. (I understand this a whole lot better since making one. No one would believe the hours I spend on making something twined.)
Sorry, about being long winded. Hope I didn't bore you with too much. I really have no one beside my family who are interested in the facts that I dig up.
Thanks for taking the time to read,
paweaver
I'm glad that you like the straps and are using them. When Loren brought in his very first braintan hide to me. The first thing I said is Wow! I want to braid with this. It stills beats any other material for braiding. Just my humble opinion.
I went to paleoplanet and posted just to see if I could get a reply from any other people who twine. I got no response from anyone who twines themselves. Thanks for the search words weft twining... that brought up some sites I had not seen before. It seems that overseas some twining is done on a ground loom.
I've spent a lot of time last year studying the old rag twined rugs that were made in the US years ago. I found no record of a ground loom being used. Window frames, wagon wheels, and some very interesting things, but no ground loom. This year I've moved into studying the twined bags... mostly in the Great Lakes region. Those three new mag. were very interesting. I will have to post the titles latter, as we had someone come over yesterday and all my projects got moved to another room for hiding. I'll just share two things that I found very interesting.
1. Lewis and Clark were amazed at the twine bags that they saw on their trip. They tried to buy them, but the Natives would not part with them very willingly. They were only able to bring one twined bag back. Boy would I love to know where that one bag is today.
2. Twined bags were not an item that was sold very often. They took a long time to make, and were very highly valued. They were something that was "gifted" to another, or exchanged at a marriage. (I understand this a whole lot better since making one. No one would believe the hours I spend on making something twined.)
Sorry, about being long winded. Hope I didn't bore you with too much. I really have no one beside my family who are interested in the facts that I dig up.
Thanks for taking the time to read,
paweaver