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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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an attached cord (Fig. 34), and the temple (Fig. 37) consistsof a piece of hollow cane with a loose very thin piece of cane running through it,the protruding ends of which are stuck into the finished portion of the web, practi-cally similar to that of the above-mentioned Kachiquel loom. The dimensions are : NMVA (ANCIENT MEXICAN) £*M-WE.AV1N02A CODEX . Kl MC-S-^O^OUS-H VOL. I. PL .6l._ NOTE THe %\TOF WEAVING ATTHE. WARP 6N.P A. 1 Doubled is a terra used to denote two or more threads twisted into one, and known astwo-ply, three-ply, six-ply, etc. H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 21 length, beam to beam inclusive, about 14 feet (or 425 m.); width of web,17£ inches (or 44-5 cm.); 64 warps to the inch (or 25-6 to the cm.); the warps aresisters, same as the Kachiquel warp; 25 picks to the inch (or 10 to the cm.); thewefts are single. Both warp and weft are continuous. The spool is of the primi-tive longitudinal type (Ad). The shed-stick is a palm midrib or stem.
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4. A very interesting loom (Plate I) is that brought from Mazatec, Arizona,by J. Cooper Clark, and now in the British Museum ; for besides the plain up-and-down web, a large portion is devoted to twist or gauze1 weaving, while a consider-able piece of the plain web is afterwards covered by a woven-in design of dark blue 1 Gauze, formed by crossing adjacent warp threads and bound by weft at the point ofjunction. h 2 22 H. Ling Eoth.—Shtclies in Primitive Zooms. wool. Beginning at the breast beam, there are 10 plain picks, then 1 of gauze,then 4 more plain picks, whence the gauze weaving extends a length of about8^ inches (or 22 cm.), and on this is woven the pattern just mentioned; then wehave a further 6 5 cm. (or 2f inches) of gauze; then 14 cm. (or A^ inch) of plainweaving, followed by 76 cm. (or 3 inches) of gauze, and soon. The wTarp lay-outfor accomplishing the gauze is shown in Fig. 41. It should be noted that on thisloom, as on the Kachiquel loom, a piece of the tailing has b

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