. Yarn and cloth making; an economic study; a college and normal schools text preliminary to fabric study, and a reference for teachers of industrial history and art in secondary and elementary schools. Fig. 44. — Two-bar Loom, West Africa The most advanced loom of this type is in Africa, where patterns are introducedin overlay (an exceptional form). WEAVING TYPES 129 Battening. a. weft beaten up by fingers. h. weft beaten up by stick-shuttle or adjusting. 1. warp loosened by removing wedges or cords. 2. warp shifted over bars to bring unwoven warp strands in front of weaver. 3. we
. Yarn and cloth making; an economic study; a college and normal schools text preliminary to fabric study, and a reference for teachers of industrial history and art in secondary and elementary schools. Fig. 44. — Two-bar Loom, West Africa The most advanced loom of this type is in Africa, where patterns are introducedin overlay (an exceptional form). WEAVING TYPES 129 Battening. a. weft beaten up by fingers. h. weft beaten up by stick-shuttle or adjusting. 1. warp loosened by removing wedges or cords. 2. warp shifted over bars to bring unwoven warp strands in front of weaver. 3. wedges replaced to tighten warp strands. Economic Gain In production: Two bars furnish taut web, twice the length between the shifting of warp to adjust for convenience product: Coarse web, but warp and weft strands are moreparallel and more evenly spaced. BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 Bancroft, H. H. Native races, I, 215. 3 Boas, F. Indians of British Columbia. Rept. British Science, 1890, 566. - Ephraim, H. Entwicklung der Webetechnik ausserhalb Eu- ropas. (Illustration.) Museum fiir Volkerkunde zu Leip-zig, Band I, Heft I. 3 Gibbs, G. Tribes of west Wa
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