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Walton, Penelope. "The Dyes." In Textiles and Clothing c. 1150-c. 1450, edited by Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard, and Kay Staniland, 199-210. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1992. Includes an analysis of the dyes used in the brocaded tabletwoven bands found in excavations in twelfth- to fifteenth-century London.
Walton, Penelope. "Dyes and wools in textiles from Mammen (Bjerringhöj), Denmark." In Mammen: Grav, kunst og samfund i vikingetid, edited by Mette Iversen, 139-143. Moesgård, Denmark: Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab, 1991. Includes an analysis of the dyes used in the brocaded tabletwoven bands found at tenth-century Viking age Mammen, Denmark.
Walton, Penelope. "Dyes of the Viking Age: A Summary of Recent Work." Dyes in History and Archaeology 7 (1988): 14-20. A report on the dyes used on wool and silk textiles found in tenth- to twelfth-century Viking urban deposits in Dublin, Ireland.
Watson, Andrew. "Back to Gold - and Silver." The Economic History Review Second Series XX:1 (1967): 1-34. An extensive report on the monetary history of the trade in gold and silver in Europe and the Muslim world from 1000 to 1500 C.E.
Webster, Leslie and Janet Backhouse, eds. The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900. London: British Museum Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue which includes a description and photo on p. 136 of a tabletwoven band with soumak and brocading from ninth-century Ravenna, Italy; analysis and photo on pp. 183-184 of the Anglo-Saxon tabletwoven band that combines soumak wrapping and brocading used to form the infulae on a twelfth-century Austrian mitre; description and photos on p. 184 of the eighth/ninth-century Anglo-Saxon embroideries, referred to as the so-called chasuble of Sts. Harlindis and Relindis, now in Maaseik, Belgium.
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles. New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. Includes analyses and photos of two brocaded tabletwoven bands, possibly Sicilian, from the eleventh and eleventh/twelfth century as well as a twelfth/thirteenth-century mitre infula.
Weiner, Annette and Jane Schneider, eds. Cloth and Human Experience. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. Thirteen essays that explore the social and political significance of cloth in small-scale and industrial societies.
West, Stanley. West Stow The Anglo-Saxon Village Volume 2: Figures and Plates. Ipswich: Suffolk County Planning Department, 1985. A small square tablet, probably a mount on leather, made of bronze from the fourth- to seventh-century Anglo-Saxon settlement at West Stow, England, shown in Fig. 227.
Whitelock, Dorothy. Anglo-Saxon Wills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. Includes bequests of ecclesiastical vestments and personal clothing which may have included brocaded tabletwoven bands.
Wild, John Peter. Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. A brief mention of tablet weaving and tablets from Roman London and Wroxeter, England.
Williamson, Paul, ed. The Medieval Treasury: The Art of the Middle Ages in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986. Photograph on p. 174 of the thirteenth-century brocaded tabletwoven band on the buskin of Walter de Cantelupe, Bishop of Worcester.
Wyss, Robert. "Die Handarbeiten der Maria." Artes Minores: Dank an Werner Abegg, 113-188. Bern: Verlag Stämpfli & Cie, 1973. A study of textile techniques based on medieval illuminations of the Virgin Mary including tablet weaving.
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Zarina, Anna. Libiesu Apgerbs 10.-13. gs.. Riga, Latvia: Zinatne, 1988. Analysis of tenth- to thirteenth-century Latvian clothing and textiles which included band trim, some of which may be brocaded tabletwoven bands.
Die Zeit der Staufer. Stuttgart: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, 1977. A exhibition catalogue in two volumes which includes, on pages 618-619, descriptions of the twelfth/thirteenth-century cingulum and shoes of King Philip of Swabia, and on pages 626-627 descriptions of three eleventh- and twelfth-century brocaded bands, probably Sicilian, with pictures of them in the second volume.
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