I've been thinking about this rather charming 2-hole pattern for a while.
So I warped it up and decided to use it as a vehicle for exploration and learning.
As you can see, the left side of the band (near the beginning) is narrower and the diamonds are more elongated. I've been playing with how tight I pull the weft to see the effects on the aspect ratio of the diamonds. In the middle or a bit to the right, the weft is so loose that it's leaving little bloops along the edges. Dunno if the band will spread out more or it that's kind of it. However, the diamonds are not nearly as elongated.
I like the wider band with less elongated diamonds, so that's what I'll keep doing. I'll probably do a bit more experimenting before trying to settle down to one width.
Dunno if I'll make the far end of the band do something similar to pretend I meant to do it that way.
Another thing that I'm experimenting with is only turning the edge tablets when the weft is about to go through it/them. That means they turn once every other row, alternating right and left edges. It's supposed to help with being able to beat the weft in harder. I think it does that -- the first pattern repeats on this band have the edges turning every row, with the later ones being every other row. I think there's a bit of a difference. So that will be useful for a lot of future projects in various techniques.
This band is from Tablet Woven Bands from Egypt by Silvia Aisling Ungerechts, p. 44-45, the tablet-woven band from the Brooklyn-Museum, New York, Inv. No. 15.445. I recharted it, of course, to make sure I understood what I was doing.
The original band is here: https://brooklynmuseum.org/objects/9178. The red is wool (almost certainly madder-dyed) and the yellow is linen and probably was once a lot closer to white. It is labeled as being from Coptic Egypt, 5th-6th century CE. The original is 3/4" wide but mine is probably a bit wider, not that I care. I mean, I could get mine to be 3/4" wide, but that would affect the appearance of the lozenges/diamonds.
Mine is the usual big-box-store #10 crochet cotton, both warp and weft. There are 32 tablets -- 30 2-holed pattern tablets, and 1 4-holed edge tablet on each side. The pattern is a basic F/B turning sequence, nothing fancy.
The pattern is cute enough but I think I like the little diamond band from the Louvre better, at least so far.
