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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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den Museum and there are four specimens, also from Buka, in the DresdenMuseum. It is not clear whether the illustrations Danneil gives, reproduced inFigs. 173a and b, are those of the original article, but taking it for granted that hecould not have produced such a delicate apparatus, we may accept the drawing asa representation of the native article. The loom is made up of a split piece of woodabout 43 inches (or 110 cm.) long, the two halves tied together at the ends to preventfurther splitting and kept asunder in the middle by two stays about 3£ to 4 inches(or 8 to 10 cm.) long. A continuous yarn of bast is wound round that part of theframe which lies between the two stays, and this forms the warp ; the pick is madein the usual way, apparently by means of the fingers and a needle. To raise the warp 1 Verh. Berl. Ges.f. Anthr., 1888, xx, pp. 90-91. 2 Der Uebergang vom Flechten zum Weben, Archives Intern. dEthn., 1901, xiv, pp.227-238. 110 H. Ling Both.—Studies in Primitive Looms.
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H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. Ill and make the shed when necessary a pointed piece of wood is used. There is nomention nor indication of any heddle. Danneil says of this loom :x As it lies before us it represents for all time anoriginal invention—an original transition from plaiting to weaving. He leadsup to this claim by pointing out the difference between plaiting and weaving, sayingthat the first condition of weaving is the laying of the warp with the help of a warpingframe (Spannrahm) and continues: It was without doubt the nature of the materialwhich put primitive man on to the idea to c lay it and to construct a framewith that end in view. For fineness and want of stiffness made any material uselessfor free hand plaiting. It being necessary that one portion of the filaments shouldbe laid once over it resulted of itself that another form of intercrossing of thefilaments took place. Man already knew the material, either he had used it in makingthread or had adopted

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