How old is tablet weaving anyway? The earliest piece I know of is 9-8th c. BCE (Etruscan), and by the 5th c. BCE it was very well-established and complex (Hallstatt). <\/p>\n
Why is there no tablet weaving in South America, or North America for that matter, even though there are other fabulously complex textiles?<\/p>\n
How and when did tablet weaving get to India? Tibet? <\/p>\n
How and when did tablet weaving get to Indonesia? It was well-established by the time western European textile collectors showed up in the 19th c.<\/p>\n
I’m sitting outside in the finally-cooling courtyard with the last of the day’s cicadas and the first of the evening’s fireflies thinking about these sorts of things. I realize these are mostly-unanswerable questions, but I can’t help but think that much valuable evidence lies unrecognized in museum and private collections around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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