A chapter by Arnold van Gennep (offprint from the Revue d'Ethnographie et de Sociologie, 1911) on card weaving (tablet weaving) in North Africa, based on his own observation of weavers in Tlemcen, Algiers and Tunisian ribbons. It explains the technique as derived from rope-making, covering twisting of threads through four-holed cards, chevron patterns, reversing card rotation, warp length, threading, the comb and loom types, and the number of threads per card. It ends with a distribution map and a discussion of the antiquity and origins of the technique, with comparisons to Lehmann-Filhès, Akhmim, Iceland, Caucasus and Swiss lake-dwelling finds.

A 1916 French-language monograph arguing that the geometric ornament painted and carved on ancient Egyptian belts, dagger sheaths, 'palace-façade' stelae, wall hangings and early ivory and wood engravings was copied from tablet-woven (card-woven) bands. Part one classifies the decorative themes (lettered A to V and α to γ); part two explains tablet-weaving principles, card and thread arrangement, turning, widening and the technical variations, with tables and reconstructed ribbons; part three examines the Liverpool scarf attributed to Ramesses III, the Th. Graf collection of ribbons, and tablet weaving among Aegeans, Syrians and in Coptic Egypt. It is illustrated with line figures, color plates of ribbons woven by the authors, and several card-weaving drafts and threading tables.