The technique of tablet weaving is a method of weaving bands using various numbers of square or rectangular tablets usually made of wood with holes drilled at each corner. Warp yarn is threaded through the holes in the tablets and the ends of the yarn are weighted so the yarn is taut and the tablets can be bunched together to allow the weft threads to be put through. Each time the weft thread is inserted through the shed made by the tablets, the tablets are twisted once maybe twice depending on the pattern needed. Thicker yarns are included sometimes to make ridges on the band and they are threaded through tablets with just two holes in them.( illus 4)The two tablet woven bands of the Orkney hood would require 56 wooden tablets to manufacture them. I decided to copy the size of the tablet excavated in Denmark in 1888 in Ringkobing County Denmark (Hald 1980, 225). This tablet is 4.75 cm x 5.5 cm and is dated to the Celtic Iron Age c 200 BC.