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
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ed on this loom vary from 2 to6 inches, 5 to 15 cm., in breadth. The reed, Fig. 108, is the best part of it, andgenerally consists of a more or less square hardwood frame 6 inches by 7 inches,15 by 18 cm., or thereabouts; all four sides are equally thick, and when fittedtogether and tied up the whole is fairly rigid. The reed is also frequently madewith the side pieces much lighter than the top and bottom, so that it would be toolight to swing back into position after beating-in, to obviate which the bottom woodis made heavier than the top one, or other pieces of wood are fastened to it asshown in Figs. Ill, 112, 113, and 114. The reed is suspended by cord and not byside battens like our sley side supports. The heddles are likewise suspended by acord which passes over an ill-formed pulley, Fig. 119, the roller of which is 1 Encyclopedia Britannica, xiith ed. 2 Aures, p. 117. 3 Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee. 4to. London, 1819. H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 59
Text Appearing After Image:
V>_>JJ A •z.>u o o psr o <£=» \u -J or BIS a? •z. *■ ^ om as ar~_ Ui (U P- 2T STo© o -Io X 4 u. 60 H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. frequently an old sewing yarn reel (or bobbin). The leashes of the heddles aremostly of twisted cotton. A shuttle is in use, and frequently it is not providedwith a weft paying-out hole. The warp beams place is taken by a heavy stone oranchor, while the breast beam consists of a thin cylindrical stick on which thecloth is wound by means of a wooden pin passed through the end, the point ofwhich presses against the seat of the weaver to prevent unwinding. The heddlesare drawn downwards by means of cords which end in a wood or bone disc or ashort transverse piece of wood, which is grasped between the big and second toes of

Note About Images