Sprang 3 and Sprang 6

Here is sprang #3, with more practice, my eyes and my fingers are getting used to movements and patterns needed for this basic weave pattern.



Here is sprang #6, becoming more familiar with the movements and where the strings need to overlap for the weaving to work. I have 24 warps on it now. Will start some wider pieces with a long board soon.

I've used string to pull the weaving wide for taking the photo. I've also drilled some holes in the clipboard to anchor the sticks.

Here are some more sprang links

Wikipedia - Sprang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprang

Stringpage.com - Sprang info
http://www.stringpage.com/sprang/sprang.html

Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon and Viking Crafts - Sprang
http://www.regia.org/sprang.htm

Middle Kingdom Textile Artisan Guild
Click on the various sprang articles
http://mktag.org/projects/content.html

Doni's Coptic Bag Sprang Project
http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/donisfuff/coptic.html

Ellen Shipleys Weft To My Own Devices sprang article
http://wefttomyowndevices.blogspot.com/2008/03/sprang.html

Ronald and Blue's Web Site with Sprang and Nalbinding
English Version - Click on pictures to read about Techniques
http://www.denblauwenswaen.nl/engels.htm

Jen's Coptic Sprang Article
with links to other articles
http://genvieve.net/sca/copticsprang.html

Sprang Article from House Ebarra Early Period #7
http://www.housebarra.com/EP/ep07/11sprang.html

Edited to add:

I found another sprang book online at

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_sprang.html

Egyptisch Vlechtwerk [Sprang], Holkema & Warendorf, 36 pages.

Part 1 file size 4.2MB

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/egp_spng_1.pdf

Part 2 file size 11.6MB

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/egp_spng_2.pdf

Description from Anne Blinks

http://www.santacruzhandweavers.org/anneblinks/papers/sprangpapers.html

Van Reesema, E. Siewertsz, Egyptisch Vlechtwerk [Egyptian Lace], V. Holkema
& Warendorf's, Uitg-My.N.V. Amsterdam, N.D. 48pp.  [Instructions included,
with photos.  Also photos of currently interlaced pieces from classes.
This is what we now call Sprang.]

I don't read Dutch, but there are dozens of excellent pictures. The book was scanned as picture so I can't put the text into a translator without typing it all in.

Add this web page to the list of links

http://www.santacruzhandweavers.org/anneblinks/sprang.html

Have a good day!