It's been a while since I've done a Karisto/Pasanen band. I was flipping through Tablet Woven Treasures for inspiration and decided to do Band 41, which was the top edge of a skirt from Kaukola, Kekomäki (p.190-191). This is a cute little 4-threaded band that uses the diagonals technique with half-turns (along with a little bit of 3/1 twill and double-face sensibilities) and has tubular edges. I like the motif.
The book shows the band in blue, yellow, and red. My cheap cotton stash is starting to get low, so I ended up choosing different colors that I had a bigger supply of. Mine is aqua/teal, sage green, and burgundy red. It's pretty reasonable, I think. (The pic's colors are not quite right, but close enough.) The weft is random leftovers, as usual. Since this isn't necessarily going to be a gift, and since both sides have tubular edges, I'm not going to worry about possibly needing to change my weft thread partway through the band.
There are 11 tablets, 7 for the pattern and 2 on each side for the tubular edges. One thing I'm noticing is that one side curls under a lot more than the other. Hmmm. Dunno if it's my technique and tension, or if it's something about how the tablet orientation interacts with the yarn twist and the path of the weft. I'll try to loosen up a bit to see if it helps. If it is tension, I'm not sure which direction is tighter than it should be.
It's going pretty quickly. There's nothing very difficult about it, but I do have to pay attention. I like it so far.
Mostly unrelated: There's a book that's been around for a while on Anatolian tablet weaving (Tablet Weaving from Anatolia and the Ottoman Court). Sarah Goslee's review (https://www.archaeologicaltextiles.net/pages/anatoliaTW.html) mentions kivrim aka ram's horn style motifs on some of the bands, and that these motifs weren't found on bands (in the book's photo section) that were pre-17th century. So there's an approximate date for when kivrim patterns were known to exist. They go back to at least the 17th century in that part of the world. So there.
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