Viking bone weaving plate for plate weaving. Z
Medieval weaving plate is made from a single piece of bone and carefully smoothed.
The dimensions of the bone weaving plate are 4 x 4 cm with four 5mm diameter holes.
Towards the edges, the thickness of the plate decreases from 2 mm in the middle to 1 mm on the sides. This means that the individual plates only touch in the middle and slide beautifully over each other, making handling easier and reducing weight at the same time.
Bone weaving plates were commonly used by Germanic tribes for plate weaving and were also used by the Vikings until the Middle Ages. There are several finds of historic bone weaving plates from the Middle Ages. Reference to an original weaving plate...
Plate weaving uses a larger or smaller number of plates to weave a narrow web, hence the name plate weaving. By rotating the plates in a certain way, it is possible to create an almost infinite number of different patterns.
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