Editing Tablet weaving (section)

== History ==
[[File:Damendorf-Man's breeches tabelt weft detail P1011966.JPG|thumb|Tablet woven borders on [[Damendorf Man]]s trousers (2nd–4th century AD)]]
[[File:Telar de cartas o cartones con machete mesoamericano 01.jpg|thumb|Tablet weaving in [[Veracruz]], 2021]]
Tablet weaving dates back at least to the 8th century BCE in early [[Iron Age]] Europe<ref name="Gleba">{{cite book |last1=Gleba |first1=Margarita |author-link=Margarita Gleba |title=Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy |date=2008 |publisher=Ancient Textiles Series, Vol. 4, Oxbow Books |isbn=978-1-84217-330-5 |location=Oxford |pages=138–139}}</ref> where it is found in areas employing the [[warp-weighted loom]].<ref name=Priest-Dorman>{{cite journal |last1=Priest-Dorman |first1=Carolyn |title="Scutulis Dividere Gallia": Weaving on Tablets in Western Europe |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/200/ |journal=Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings |date=January 1998 |publisher=[[Textile Society of America]] |access-date=30 August 2014}}</ref> Historically the technique served several purposes: to create starting and/or [[selvedge]] bands for larger textiles such as those produced on the warp-weighted loom; to weave decorative bands onto existing textiles;<ref name="NESAT 6">Ræder Knudsen, L. 1998. "An Iron Age Cloak with Tablet-woven Borders:  a New Interpretation of the Method of Production." In ''Textiles in European Archaeology:  Report from the 6th NESAT Symposium,'' pp. 79-84.</ref> and to create freestanding [[narrow work]].

Early examples have been found at [[Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave|Hochdorf]], [[Germany]],<ref name="NESAT 5">Ræder Knudsen, L. 1994. "Analysis and Reconstruction of Two Tablet Woven Bands from the Celtic Burial Hochdorf." In ''North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles 5,'' pp. 53 – 60.</ref> and [[Apremont, Haute-Saône]], France,<ref name="Barber">{{cite book |last1=Barber |first1=E. J. W. |author-link=Elizabeth Wayland Barber |title=Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean |date=1992 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-0-691-20141-2}}</ref> as well as in Italy, Greece, and Austria.<ref name=Gleba /> Elaborate tablet-woven bands are found in many high status Iron Age and medieval graves of Europe as well as in the Roman period in the Near East. They are presumed to have been standard trim for garments among various European peoples, including the [[Vikings]].<ref>e.g. Rasmussen, L., and Lönborg, B. 1993. "Dragtrester i grav ACQ, Köstrup." ''Fynske Minder (Odense bys Museer)'', pp. 175-182.</ref> Many museum examples exist of such bands used on ecclesiastical textiles or as the foundation for elaborate belts in the European Middle Ages. In the 17th century, tablet weaving was also used to produce some monumental silk hangings in Ethiopia.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://ethiopia.deeds.utoronto.ca/pubs/HangingsArticle/HangingsArticle.pdf |jstor=20073687 |title=The Tablet-Woven Hangings of Tigre, Ethiopia: From History to Symmetry |last1=Gervers |first1=Michael |journal=[[The Burlington Magazine]] |date=September 2004 |volume=146 |issue=1218 |pages=588–601}}</ref>

Tablet weaving is often erroneously believed to date back to pharaonic Egypt. This theory was advanced early in the 20th century based on an elaborate woven belt<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/antiquities/ancient-egypt/item-299418.aspx |title=Ramesses Girdle |access-date=10 January 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821054600/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/antiquities/ancient-egypt/item-299418.aspx |archive-date=21 August 2017}}</ref> of uncertain provenance, often called the Girdle of Rameses, as it bore an inked cartouche of Rameses III. [[Arnold van Gennep]] and G. Jéquier published a book in 1916, {{lang|fr|Le tissage aux cartons et son utilisation décorative dans l'Égypte ancienne}}, predicated on the assumption that the ancient Egyptians were familiar with tablet weaving. Scholars argued spiritedly about the production method of the belt for decades. Many popular books on tablet weaving promoted the Egyptian origin theory until, in an appendix to his book ''The Techniques of Tablet Weaving'', Peter Collingwood proved by structural analysis that the linen belt could not have been woven on tablets.<ref name=Collingwood />