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Yes, and decorative weaves were more important then. I think that's because it was the technique most economically in reach--you don't see a lot of colored patterns on cloth in early finds, for example, nor much embroidery in northern European clothing until the Anglo-Saxon period. (The Vikings were contemporary with the Anglo-Saxons but seem, based on the finds, to have done very little embroidery and not been very good at it.)