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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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Text Appearing Before Image:
its final stage of degradation in an extraordinary work by Perry Walton.

¹ Antiquissimi Virgilium Codicis Fragmenta el Picturac ex Bibliotheca Vatican*, p. 129.
² Antiquite Expliqvec. Paris, 1710, Part iii., PI. 195.
³ Romani Vetera Monimenti, Romae. 1747, PL 35.
⁴ Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd Ed., 1890.
⁵ The Story of the Textiles, Boston, Mass., 1912. The adjective " extraordinary " has not been
used inadvisedly. What is one to think of such statements as the following : " Fabrics dating
back to a period thousands of years ago have been unearthed in England (p. 14). On the walls
of Nineveh, Babylon, Thebes, and the ancient cities of Peru and Mexico, throughout most of
the ruins of Assyria, Persia, Egypt, and among similar ruins of both North and South America,
is depicted the whole process of the textile industry, from the raising of the sheep or growing of
the flax to the spinning of the yarn and weaving of the fabrics " (p. 16).

H. LING ROTH.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 123
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Fig. 192
FROM JOHANNES BRAUNIUS
VESTIBUS SACERDOTUM
HEBRAEROMU.
1680

124 H. LING ROTH.—Studies in Primitive Looms.

The following is the description of this loom as given by Braunius. It is worth
reproducing, quite apart from the rarity of the book and its inaccessibility to the
general public and even to students. ¹

AAAA.—Loom, or ancient weaver's beam. An upright loom (Artemidorus,
Bk. iii, Chap. 36). Perhaps called " jugum " by Ovid on account of its shape,
which is not unlike a yoke. In what manner a yoke was constructed, and what
was meant by " sent under the yoke," may be clearly seen from Cicero, De
Officiis, Bk. iii, and Livius, Bk. iii, etc.

B.—Shirt, rounded and closed without seam ; seamless (άρρaφυs) as
was the shirt of Christ (John, chap. xix). Otherwise " tunica recta." (Isidorus,
Orig. Bk. xix, chap. xxii). This shirt is woven in an upward direction ; for
the weaving begins from the topmost thread CC and gradually works down to
D. (Herod., Bk. ii, Theophylactus " In Johannem," Festus Chrysostomus
" In Johannem Homil." lxxxv. Isidorus Pelusiota, Epist. lxxiv, Bk. i).
The shirt is rounded and closed from B to I ; then, however, it is divided to D
and E, as men's undergarments usually are to-day.

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