It should be law that every modern tablet weaver must add items like this to their weaving, as an aid to future archaeologists. Like Heather said they added an astronaut when renovating that cathedral, don't remember whether it was York or another.
So, very well done! Can we get a pattern? I love the coffee cup.
That still relies on the modern bit of the band being preserved, though...
As for the pattern - I'll think about it, if enough people are interested. I'd have to sit down at the band and take it from what is woven, sort of (as obviously the point of the thing was not to have a written pattern...)
Hello Harma - yes, it was York.
An alternative to including modern icons could be use of a modern dye or thread. One of my first essays when studying archaeology was about how to date artefacts and how many 'historic' items had been flagged as frauds because the manufacturer hadn't known their materials or processes. It was fascinating.
Monmouth has a museum dedicated to Admiral Nelson which contains a case full of hopeful fakes, including one that was flagged by having the wrong date inscribed.
There is a small museum of fake art in a town nearby:
https://museums-vledder.nl/en/museums-vledder/index.php/
We once had a tour there when the guide told us that at an opening of an exibition a quite famous artist and a falsifier stood next to ech other and the artist asked the falsifier about the painting they were looking at: Ïs this one of yours, or one of mine". The falsifier just smiled.