Weaving, spinning and dyeing

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Luceting: I-cord's Older, Stronger and Possibly Cooler Cousin
Viking whale bone lucet, which is a tool used to weave cord. The circles with dots represent the sun and in turn birth, death and rebirth , due to the rising, setting and rising the next day of the sun on to infinity. Viking Myth characters the Norns are the weavers of fate and start the day, by placing a rooster in the Ysddiral tree
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Great Site for Looms http://www.ursulasalcove.com/looms/inkle.html (shown: Egyptian card weaving)
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Heddle for tape weaving, Norway - one more example of a tape loom (rigid heddle)
Clothing in the Viking Age
I really need to learn this.