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Anglo-Saxon Tablet Weaving

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Extract

Tablet weaving has been popular in the north from the early centuries A.D. It is present, for example, in the well-developed tablet braids and edgings of the Torsberg find from Schleswig, and therefore might be expected to occur in Anglo-Saxon remains. It is most appropriate, then, that the first examples of tablet weaving to be recognized in this country come from East Anglia, and in two cases these are fastened to wrist-clasps regarded by E. T. Leeds as distinctive of districts which were occupied by the Angles.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1952

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References

page 189 note 1 Crowfoot, G. M.. ‘Textiles of the Saxon period’, etc., Proc. Camb. Ant. Soc. xliv (1951), p. 26, pl. v and fig. 1Google Scholar.

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page 191 note 1 Dedekam, Hans, To tekstilfund fra folkevandringstiden (Bergen Museum Aarbok, 1924-1925), figs. 18, 2529Google Scholar.

page 191 ntoe 2 My thanks are due to the Ashmolean Museum for permission to study and publish the clasps, to Mr. M.B.Cookson, of the Institute of Archaeology, for the photographs, and to Miss E. G. Crowfoot for the reconstruction drawing.