Identifier: studiesinprimiti00roth (find matches)
Title: Studies in primitive looms
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Journal
Subjects: Weaving
Publisher: Halifax (Eng.) F. King & sons, ltd
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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n by a cross bar passed through ahole at the end of the beam. The beater-in is very crude, and is similar to one inthe Victoria and Albert Museum (Fig 195a) said to be Persian. The frame of the two looms just described consists of two upright posts andtwo cross pieces which join the uprights at top and bottom respectively. The frameof the Oriental mat loom with its specially developed beater-in belongs to this form.In the warp-weighted loom there is only one cross piece which joins the uprights atthe top. As incidentally mentioned when discussing Braunius loom, there is anindication of a transition between these two looms, which consists in bunching the 1 Reisen in Lykien u. Karien, 1884, p. 18. H. Ling Roth.—Studies in Primitive looms. 129 lower warp ends to a loose rod, on to which one weight only is attached, which keepsall the threads taut. But there must have been an earlier or simpler frame than thatof the warp-weighted loom. An example of this is the Kwakiutl loom, figured by
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Fig. 11 T&rkin am WebstuhlPtO.195. FWW O.BENNOORFS RttSEN IN LYKIEN l)KAfc16.N. 1&84- Mary L. Kissell,1 or the Ojibway loom figured by M. D. C. Crawford.2 It consists oftwo uprights stuck into the ground about 2 feet apart and joined at the top by apiece of yarn, or perhaps originally sinew. The weaving naturally proceeds 1 Aboriginal American Weaving, Nat. Assoc. Cotton Manufacturers, Boston, Mass., 1910, p. 4,Fig. 1. 2 Amer. Museum Journ., Oct., 1916, p. 382. 130 H. Ling Roth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. downwards. On the Ojibway loom the cloth is apparently made in one piece. Onthe Kwakiutl loom the weaving is done at twice, that is to say, the cloth is wovenfor the full length of one half of the warp and then the weaving continues or ratherrecommences on the top of the second half, and the two finished pieces are lacedtogether at the adjoining edges. On the well-known Chilcat loom1 the cloth is wovenin several strips, instead of two only, and then joined up. Besides the

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