A friend supplied yarn for me in return for me using the yarn to weave them a sturdy strap.
Here it is. The yarn is DK to worsted-weight cotton. I used sport-weight cotton as the weft. The band is roughly 5' long and between 1-1/4" and 1-3/8" wide. As suspected, the thicker yarn meant that I had a higher take-up and a bit more waste at the end, and thus the band ended up a few inches shorter than usual.
The pattern is based on a chart from Lautanahuat by Maikki Karisto, p.105. I simplified it, of course.
It was quick and easy to weave and I like how it looks. I might have to make more bands in this style.
I could have dropped down to 14 tablets instead of 16. Or expanded the band to have another set of stripes. Or lots of other options.
I do like the design and color sense of the patterns in this book.
If I weighted each tablet separately, I might have been able to lengthen this by a few inches. But it would probably have been offset by all the other hassles. There are always trade-offs, sigh.
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