As part of the run-up to Garb Wars, I did a little experiment in attaching tablet-woven trim to a garment. Many of the examples I have references to are to bands created as part of the fabric - starting bands, finishing bands, selvedge bands. Other bands were woven onto the finished fabric, with their weft thread passing through the cloth before passing back through the shed.
I took an existing band and ran sewing thread through it, roughly following the weft. I wasn't trying to exactly hit every shed or pass of the weft. Out the other side, stab through fabric, back out along band weft. Out the free edge, turn and move down somewhat, back along a new weft.
It made a really strong edge-to-edge connection. It was slow and a bit fiddly to do, but it seems like a very useful technique to have in the arsenal.
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