Woven material It is on show for the first time at The Scottish Crannog Centre’s Iron Age village, visitor centre and museum, ...

An ancient piece of Iron Age cloth discovered at the bottom of a Scottish loch is to go on display for the first time.

The piece of fine woven yarn is almost 2,500 years old and dates back to the early to middle part of the Iron Age.

“The weave on this fine textile is called a 2/1 twill which is really unusual for the time in southern Britain and northern Europe as most twill weaves were 2/2. This sheds considerable light on ...

It explains the use of various looms, such as the backstrap loom and box loom, and demonstrates techniques for maintaining tension and achieving different patterns like tabby and twill weaves.

The more regular cloth has a plain twill weave, or a variation of twill, the broken lozenge pattern. However, the warp-weighted loom can be used to weave intricate designs of stripes, diamonds, and ...

when torn it rips in a straight line Twill weave Twill weave has a diagonal pattern on the surface as the weft yarn is woven over two warp threads in a continual pattern Strong, hardwearing ...