. Studies in primitive looms. tS-SCP. BANKFlfcLD t^U5. TlKQ[SXO(^B^NKFIELD tAOS. Kw \ T T ABANKRtLb MUS. INST. think that the beatings-in by the reed would have a tendency to get away from theright angle to the warp, but I am unable to trace any such irregularity in thefabrics examined. Owing to the absence of wooden side pieces, the reed is any-thing but rigid. The heddles are supported from a Whipple tree ; the leashes areof fine twisted grass or similar filament. The cords drawing down the heddles areattached to one end of each of two sticks (the treadles), the other two
. Studies in primitive looms. tS-SCP. BANKFlfcLD t^U5. TlKQ[SXO(^B^NKFIELD tAOS. Kw \ T T ABANKRtLb MUS. INST. think that the beatings-in by the reed would have a tendency to get away from theright angle to the warp, but I am unable to trace any such irregularity in thefabrics examined. Owing to the absence of wooden side pieces, the reed is any-thing but rigid. The heddles are supported from a Whipple tree ; the leashes areof fine twisted grass or similar filament. The cords drawing down the heddles areattached to one end of each of two sticks (the treadles), the other two endstouching the ground, which gives the sticks an oblique position. Judging by illus-trations of negroes at work, the weaver does not keep his feet one on each treadle,but uses one foot alternately for both treadles. The place of the warp beam istaken by a post fixed vertically in the ground, and the yet-to-be-used warp isrolled partly round it and placed in a basket at the side. The web is wound rounda horizontal stick (what would
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