Band 2, Birka grave 824. Pattern by Stella Anderson.
Goodness gracious, that takes a ridiculously long time. And to think I want to make enough to wrap around my enormous melon. >.< This is notionally to go with the Birka outfit Team Storvik is making for Garb Wars (which isn't called Garb Wars this year, but I can't remember what it is called).
Same silk as last time, but I'm using silver DMC #10 thread, doubled, as the brocading weft instead of metal strips. I cut a light cardboard rectangle and poked holes in it to serve as a warp separator. The warp threads got very messy looking and threatened to tangle, but amazingly everything pulled apart and got threaded onto cards pretty easily. Warping this time around went much faster.
I started straight backstrapping, and right now it's tied to the tapestry loom, down at the bottom, then it goes up and over before getting tied to my belt. However, I'm fast approaching that point where I will have to take it in to get my hands closer to the area that needs work, and I'm not sure how to do that without knotting the brocaded section. Pins?
I want to say it was 2-3hrs to weave that section, which is (rough estimate) 3 inches long by 1/2 inch wide. Just weave, not the set up. Whew.
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