Fascinating! I'd love to have the time to do something like this, but I simply don't. 😢

What a beautiful demonstration, thank you

I knit and crochet 🧶 but just getting into loom weaving. Complete beginner but this looks exciting. I’m wanting to learn how to weave pictures

I knit and crochet 🧶 but just getting into loom weaving. Complete beginner but this looks exciting. I’m wanting to learn how to weave pictures

Wonder how the Anglo Saxons learned how to weave like this, cut sheep and spinning.

great video. I hope this comment gets this video recommended more. more need to hear about this project.

That was SO interesting and very well explained. Thank you.

That was one of the most clear and comprehensive explanations of the complete process of making cloth that I’ve seen, and it took less than six minutes. Well done! Fascinating! Folks then certainly had no time for social media.

Amazing!

Can i come work for you😊

Great video, but I think you will find they pushed the hot ashes to one side and baked on the hot stone. That is a prety universal method going back a couple of millennia at least. Thanks - You put a huge amount of work into this, it's appreciated.

I am reading a book called the Circle of Ceridwen and the women weaved both wool and linen, this video was perfect!

Every thread used for every item was made like this and woven on similar looms for hundreds, if not thousands of years. I read recently that the thread for a Viking sailing boat too about ten years of spinning time to make. And all this work was done by women

Great explanation, thanks!

Imagine how many things need fixing on any given day: clothes, houses, furniture, tools, animals, etc. Much of the day must have been dedicated to just maintaining things

from Gerry- I will never take my rigid heddle loom for granted. God bless.

don't you have to wash the fleece first?!?

It must have taken months to make enough fabric to clothe an entire family. No wonder clothing was so insanely expensive before industrialisation.

No one got to sit around doing nothing. Everyone used a spindle at the very least. A woven piece of cloth was meant to last a life time.

Fascinating way of weaving. I weave on Victorian industrial machinery called Dobcross power looms and the principles are the same, just a lot faster! Thanks for this video!!!

Thanks you for a fantastic video.

I wish I could spin as neat a thread as the lady in this video. I've been messing about with the drop spindle for years, and my yarn is lumpy, more often than not . Fortunately I can knit it into things like floor mats, where the lumpiness doesn't matter so much :-)

Il y avait aussi de nombreuses colonie Saxonnes en France.

Successful hearth cakes, Alfred never got near them.

So, there is somerhing else to learn about weaving. Those squares are quite the trick and that loom set up is quite something. Thanks.

I didn't think beans were native to Brittania?

i to this day still cannot understand how taken wool or cotton pieces and twisting them together create any kind of strength.

I so wanna visit and learn this 😭

A very interesting presentation. We dont think about the east of the county having this early history and am surprised that this archaeology has been discovered all around us.

I am never buying fast fashion ever again + the material is cheap / toxic / stanky * will only use - Cotton linen wool and whatever is made from plants 🙏 thank you for demonstrating your wonderful work

Wow thank you

they didnt wash it before this process started?

I wonder if they had a stone by the fire that they could cook their flatbreads on.

Great video!

Were the Anglo-Saxons German?

Life was more simpler.. Tho hard work.. Love watching .

Wow, I can’t believe how much I bloody enjoyed this! Really informative. This is the stuff that we hardly ever see. Wish there was more of this stuff on you tube. Thank you so much for this! I’ll watch the others now. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

I spin and weave the cloth I use to make my own clothes. The struggle is real.

Honestly, that looks awfully good even with today's cooking standards! ❤

Awesome

Everything was so labour intensive then..

It's incredible time consuming.

This was a fabulous demonstration/explanation of weaving. Very clearly described by an expert teacher. Enthralling! Thank you for posting this video.

That's amazing. The labor intensive work that goes into that cloth making is just very interesting.

Very interesting to see this early version of a loom. I have a modern loom and this vertical loom has many of the same processes.

Tablet weaving is a whole craft in itself. I've made straps, belts and sashes. I traded one sash for a trapdoor Springfield rifle.

9 out of 10 people living today would have no idea how to do these things let alone invent any of the process. The people who did invent these things were in-fact smarter than most of us today.

I can imagine that people never threw away they’re clothing in those days.

The tablet weaving selvage that she describes is actually a misunderstanding of how the ancient looms were setup. They actually started with the tablet woven strip along the top of the loom. The weft of the tablet-woven strip was strung very long and attached to the weights in groups to create the warp threads of the warp-weighted loom. This created a stable beginning for the fabric, and could then be rolled onto the top beam as the weaving progressed. Elizabeth Barber gives a detailed description of this that is much clearer than what I've written in her book, "Prehistoric Textiles".

Y'all are makin' me hungry. This reminds me of how Native Americans pounded their maize into meal on a large stone, added water, made cakes, then cooked it either over a flat stone, metal if they had it, or over hot coals like you did. They've been doing this for thousands of years. They call them tortillas. I ate one cooked by a lady living in a grass hut with a dirt floor in Tamazunchale, Mexico in 1961. Bean soup is also popular. Indigenous tribes in Western U.S. eat "3 Sisters Soup" made of beans, corn, and squash.