A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 34), andiVToVoSes, literally, the le^s of the loom. (Eus-tath. in Horn. Od. xiii. 107.) Whilst the improvements in machinery have toa great extent superseded the use of the uprightloom in all other parts of Europe, it remains almostin its primitive state in Iceland. The followingwoodcut is reduced from an engraving of the Ice-landic loom in Olaf Olafsens Economic Tour inthat island, published in Danish at Copenhagen,a. d. 1780. We observe underneath the jugum aroller (dvriov, Pollux, vii. x. § 36 ; Eustath. inHorn. Od. xiii. 107) which is turned
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . 34), andiVToVoSes, literally, the le^s of the loom. (Eus-tath. in Horn. Od. xiii. 107.) Whilst the improvements in machinery have toa great extent superseded the use of the uprightloom in all other parts of Europe, it remains almostin its primitive state in Iceland. The followingwoodcut is reduced from an engraving of the Ice-landic loom in Olaf Olafsens Economic Tour inthat island, published in Danish at Copenhagen,a. d. 1780. We observe underneath the jugum aroller (dvriov, Pollux, vii. x. § 36 ; Eustath. inHorn. Od. xiii. 107) which is turned by a handle,and on which the web is wound as the work ad-vances. The threads of the warp, besides beingseparated by a transverse rod or plank, are dividedinto thirty or forty parcels, to each of which astone is suspended for the purpose of keeping thewarp in a perpendicular position and allowing thenecessary play to the strokes of the spatha, whichis drawn at the side of the loom. The mysticalode written about the eleventh century of our era,. TELA. with which Gray has made us familiar in his trans-lation, and which describes the loom of the FatalSisters, represents warriors1 skulls as supplyingthe place of these round stones (pondera, 91 ; Plin. I. a). The knotted bundlesof threads, to which the stones were attached, oftenremained after the web was finished in the form ofa fringe. [Fimbriae.] Whilst the comparatively coarse, strong, andmuch-twisted thread designed for the warp wasthus arranged in parallel lines, the woof remainedupon the spindle [Fusus], forming a spool, bobbin,or pen {^Wt], dim. irtjuiov, Horn. II. xxiii. 762 ;Eurip. Hec. 466). This was either conveyedthrough the warp without any additional con-trivance, as is still the case in Iceland, or it wasmade to revolve in a shuttle (nravovKKos, v. Y\.r\viov : radius, Lucret. v. 1352). This wasmade of box brought from the shores of the Euxine,and was pointed at its extremities, that it might
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