. Studies in primitive looms. WARP &EAM » ATTACH MENT-feORNEO-MAlA^ We now come to the Malay, Javanese, and Cambodian forms, a class of loomprovided with a reed, and whose characteristic is the flat warp beam alreadyreferred to, combined with the rudiments of a loom frame. The model of one of these is in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology andEthnology. It was brought home by the late R. Shelford, who called it a floorloom. It has the warp board fitted into a slot in the front edge of each of a coupleof posts (Fig. 144). The warp board is provided with one single heddle and ashuttle
. Studies in primitive looms. WARP &EAM » ATTACH MENT-feORNEO-MAlA^ We now come to the Malay, Javanese, and Cambodian forms, a class of loomprovided with a reed, and whose characteristic is the flat warp beam alreadyreferred to, combined with the rudiments of a loom frame. The model of one of these is in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology andEthnology. It was brought home by the late R. Shelford, who called it a floorloom. It has the warp board fitted into a slot in the front edge of each of a coupleof posts (Fig. 144). The warp board is provided with one single heddle and ashuttle of form Bbl. The canes in the reed frame are fastened both top and bottom,and not at bottom only. The sword beater-in has a bent haft somewhat like the H. Ling Roth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 87 handle of a The back strap is of wood. With the presence of the backstrap and the single heddle the necessity for any loom frame has not yet becomeapparent, although the two warp posts form a beginning. A similar form
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