Brocade sampler, sixth post

Wow, I'm really spamming my own blog with every little bit of progress on this sampler brocade band!

This is the brocade motif from the 10th-century Chernigov, Ukraine band.  I used the chart from Aisling's website.  Here is where she discusses it (with a link to the chart): https://aisling.biz/index.php/galerie/historisch/fruehmittelalter/262-chernigov-ukraine and here is the chart: https://aisling.biz/images/brettchenweben/Anleitung/Chernigov.pdf

This is a fairly popular band -- I found a good half-dozen or so examples of it that people have woven.  What is interesting to me is that most of the ones other people have done use a thinner brocade weft that lies flatter, so that the background-warp tiedowns are more prominent and noticeable.

Hmmm.  That is something to ponder for future bands.  I know that the interaction of background warp and brocade weft threads are one of the issues people deal with when weaving brocade.  I might not be doing those kinds of experiments with this sampler band since I don't have thin metallic thread lying around.  But I wanted to note this specifically so that I am reminded on future tablet-woven brocade projects.

The ones I see online also have the extra strip of brocade as part of the edge pattern (19 tablets total rather than the 11 needed for the center motif).  I have no idea if or how that affects things.

There are three repeats above, each 26 rows, and it's an 11-tablet pattern.  I messed up a bit on the first repeat, oops, but it's not too noticeable.  It's a cute pattern.  I like it, though I do prefer other people's versions, where the background tiedowns really stand out against the gold and silver bling.

This was another chart where the tick marks referred to the tiedown and blanks were brocaded squares.  This means I'll be confused for a few rows on the next motif if it's charted in the opposite way!  But again, it's interesting to think about positive vs negative space and how brocading can emphasize either the pattern of the brocade weft or the pattern of the background-warp tiedowns.

I'm probably more than half down with my sampler band.  It's not going to be particularly long or anything.  Most of these little snippets of motifs are a mere few inches long.  I believe all of them are fewer than 100 row, each with 2-4 rows of plain tablet-weaving between them.

Dunno if I'll do any more brocading today.  If not, then there will be another post after the next few motifs are done!  (or if there's something I particularly want to mention, as I did today)