Week 7 Group A Lab Data: Woodworking Part 2

As we have all remarked in our lab journals, we spent the week seven lab inside woodworking rather than firing the loom weights due to poor weather. We refined the pieces of our loom (smoothing beams, chiseling) and fashioned several new heddles. In all, we have now spent about eight hours working on the loom…
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Woodworking Lab Summary Week 6

Introduction The focus of our lab was to build the pieces of a wooden loom using the tools available during the Anglo-Saxon period. The experiment was as archaeologically accurate as possible. We used traditional woodworking tools, employed traditional techniques, and worked as a group to recreate the sense of community associated with the practice. Sam…
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