Here are the most recent bands.
This one is worsted-weight acrylic, probably something like Red Heart. I wanted to re-do the band I did in wool, the one from Tablet-Woven Treasures where the \ pattern tablets are threaded AC and the / pattern tablets threaded in BD.
For about half the band, one of the tablets was threaded BC instead of AC. Oops. It's pretty subtle, even after I changed the threading.
For an acrylic band, it's not bad.
Someone on a Facebook group mentioned this one. It appealed to me so I followed the links to see what I could find out. The description and chart are here. Apparently it's from a 2022 Advent Calendar on the Historical Textiles website/blog. It's apparently from 17th century Falun (Sweden). I was immediately charmed and had to try it.
It's very cute. It alternates two tablets threaded in all 4 holes with a thin yarn, with two tablets threaded in only 2 holes with thick yarn. The original was silk but since I don't have silk, that wasn't going to happen.
I found some random leftover pink cotton to use. The darker pink is a bit thicker than #10 to my eye -- was it perl cotton, maybe? The lighter pink looks like DMC Cebelia, probably #30 but maybe #20. The weft is the same light pink thread.
The two thicknesses don't show enough contrast to my eye, but I do like the color and texture contrast. It's a very elegant little band.
I'm almost certainly going to do this one again. It could easily be made wider by adding tablets in multiples of four (2 four-threaded and 2 two-threaded). I like the idea of using different colors for the stripes. I should also try making the two-hole yarn quite a bit thicker than the four-hole yarn. I think it would look good in wool, too.
It would seem that I'm not over my obsession with stripes. Good thing that it can run in parallel (haha) with my other current obsessions.
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In Collingwood's Techniques of Tablet Weaving, he talks about patterns where textural contrast occurs by idling some tablets while turning others. I've been mulling this over. There are also the types of patterns and ideas in the "structure weave" chapter in Claudia Wollny's Tablets at Work. The El Cigarralejo band and the Draft 14 band I did fall under that category, I guess. So apparently monochromatic bands are still calling to me. Though so are two-hole bands. Chances are I'll do a few more two-hole patterns before doing more than superficially exploring other techniques.
Also, and also completely unrelatedly, I've been thinking about possibly creating a quickie class about doing one braid using three different techniques. The simple four-strand (two loop) fingerlooped braid that I showed in my previous post about simple cords can also be done on a disk/marudai or as a free-end braid in the hand. Hmmm.
I also found another source for the finger-crocheted cord (aka two strand chain sinnet aka ABOK 2896 aka Zipper Sinnet). In Tassels: The Fanciful Embellishment by Nancy Welch, in the chapter on cords and braids, she shows something she calls Finger Crocheted Cords. She says that other names she knows this by is "monkey chain" and "idiot's delight". The drawings are a little different from the one in Montse Stanley's book, but I'm pretty sure this is the same cord. Interesting... And of course she also includes the same 4-strand braids I see elsewhere, done as free-end braiding. She has a section on fingerlooped braids, too! She refers to them as Slentre (and says it's called "puncetto" work in the Italian Alps). I knew that Slentre referred to a style of fingerlooping (fingerloop braiding with some quirks), but I hadn't heard about puncetto involving any kind of fingerloop braiding techniques before.
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