It’s better to live than to be dead,

It’s the living man who has much.

I saw fire burn a rich man’s barn,

And he was dead outside the door.

The lame man rides,

The handless drives a herd,

The deaf man fights and wins;

To be blind is better than to be burned:

A corpse is of use to none.

I could probably make a tie, though changing size along the width of the warp is a very advanced technique. You cant just pull the weft tighter, you have to add extra cards and warp threads after you’ve already started weaving. It would look pretty weird. Though with a thinner material like silk it might be easier.

My third eye is open. I can see the threads of fate twist and wind as the Nornir turn the terrible tablets of time.

Tablet weaving is a lot of fun, its just a lot of work setting up and learning the motions. But its definitely worth it imo

Thanks! I am following a specific design but I had to draft the pattern itself by eye to match it. Heres my other post with more info about the draft itself

Heres the pattern on twistedthreads if you want to try it yourself: https://twistedthreads.org/pattern/sTarWyNKTB3M8RBq5

Started my new pattern and oh boy this is perfect

Normally I dont show the back before its done but it looks so good

Oh that’s my odin poster from the Northman soundtrack vinyl.

Its based on the odin picturestone they use in the temple scene

A proposition that had literally no argument against it on the ballot. Every other prop got a for and against argument but no one bothered arguing against making slavery illegal and kkkalifornians still voted to keep it.

Right but this post was not about the liberal Capitalists but their idiot Dem voter lapdogs

Loooooooooong loom

Technically the quote “And where did that bring you? Back to me.” is a line Thanos says in Avenger’s Endgame. It became a larger meme that then birthed the chapo bit and you know the rest.

Also got my next draft set up. This one is crazy long. To even fit it onto 2 papers I had to combine blocks of 20 turns that all turn in one direction into 5 lanes of 4 turns

Its based off of this belt Amleth is wearing in the Northman when he’s disguised as a Rus slave. This was the best screenshot I could get of the belt and though there are several articles on the historical costuming they did for production there were no tablet weaves to look at closely or patterns. So I had to eye it from a few pixels lmao.

Heres what the pattern looks like on the draft. I think I got it, this should look close to the final belt, gonna have to make it super long to get it to wrap around a persons waist twice with some long tail ends like Amleth has in the screenshot.

Heres the draft itself: https://twistedthreads.org/pattern/sTarWyNKTB3M8RBq5

I made a real quick test strap to try out 3/1 twilling and man is that shit confusing. The smaller strap on top was my starting point, just a complete mess, but eventually I got it and started a new strap along the same warp anx it turned out great. Its a bit small, its only just fits around my head so its no belt, but it was good practice. and it was so small with only 10 cards that set up was way easier than normal. Started and finished it over the weekend which is the fastest Ive ever finished a project.

The back is also cool. You can see how the pattern reverses both in color and the direction the individual “blocks” of thread go, so the smooth 45° slopes become checkerboards that flow in the same direction as their front, but the triangles just flip color.

Itll be at least 1.5 meters long so itll probably be a belt. Everything I make is a belt, though I suppose you could cut one off early and sew it into a bracelet.

I am very pleasantly surprised lol. Its a bit of a complicated pattern so fucking up is easier but so far so good. I did seriously fuck up one time and I had to go in reverse to fix it yesterday which left a bit of a mess, but thats not visible in this pic.

This pattern actually would work a lot better with 6 hole cards, but I dont have those so I had to mess around with the draft a lot to get it to work in 4 hole.

For reference heres the 4 hole draft

and heres the 6 hole draft

The 4 hole has 4 spots where the card is turned 3 times to make the pattern work. Though on the actual belt the pattern looks a lot neater than on the draft.

I love it, its like knwoing a secret code. Ive actually been reading a bunch of tablet weaving theory from a book I illegally downloaded. I like finding finished belts and reverse engineering their patterns by eye.

This pattern I actually reverse engineered from a belt texture I found in ac valhalla just to see if it was real.

Oh yeah, now we’re cookin

once more unto the breach

she johnny on my apple till i seed