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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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hape of horns as with the Ainu spool Ab2 ; then these double ends inclinetowards each other like those of our fishermens mesh-pin or needle, and finallyrecurve backwards as in the second Ainu example AbS. At the same time as a branch development the rounded sides of the spoolbecome flattened and in turn become grooved so that there is a longitudinal grooveas well as an end one, that is to say, the groove is continuous; this is seen in theSanta Cruz specimen Adl, and still more so in the Iban specimen Ad2, which ispractically the same, only on a larger scale, as our well-known English ladiestatting shuttle, so called. On the line of evolution B with its transverse winding at right angles to thespool, the resultant bulginess attained by this method of winding may havenecessitated a cover or case to facilitate the making of the pick. As a first form ofsuch a case we have in the Malay specimen Bb a piece of cane cut off at a node H. Ling Both.—Studies in Primitive Looms. h z of ■z.I/)
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£H ^> k. ^o nr- - < Oj — s U3 j^t 2= «i <c ^ Jo _J o a: ° LU o 6 H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. which has been slightly rounded. In this the spool is placed, not fixed, and theweft unravels from the open end. A development of this consists in making theblunt end pointed, or making a point of gum or of some other resinous substance,as in another Malay specimen not shown. Later on this point is replaced by awooden stopper with an internal socket, into which the spool is rammed, and sogets fixed as in a third Malay specimen Bbl. Then to ease the unravelling in thetube the spool is shortened, for the case is now held by the hand instead of thespool being held, and further to assist supervision the upper longitudinal half ofthe cane case appears to have been cut away, the end plugged and perforated, toguide the outgoing weft, and we get the first shuttle as known to us in the boatform with the weft still running out endwise as in the Madras specim

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