. Studies in primitive looms. HEDDLE MKKINC- NOTE,-. THE. POSITION OF THIS LOOtt IS THE OFJrtC ONE. ftbove IT. FR£>M rttpTOdPAPHS BY LIVERPOOL Mu5£Ufl PORTUGUESE. but I think the essentials have been reproduced in the illustrations, Figs. 83 and dimensions of this Portuguese-Nyassaland loom are : Beam to beam inclusive,67 inches, or T70 m.; width of web, 4 inches, or 10-2 cm.; 25 picks to the inch,or 10 to the cm.; length of heddle rod, 25 inches, or 63 cm., with a diameter of2 cm.; spool, 22-5 cm. long, of the Ba type. The yarn for both
. Studies in primitive looms. HEDDLE MKKINC- NOTE,-. THE. POSITION OF THIS LOOtt IS THE OFJrtC ONE. ftbove IT. FR£>M rttpTOdPAPHS BY LIVERPOOL Mu5£Ufl PORTUGUESE. but I think the essentials have been reproduced in the illustrations, Figs. 83 and dimensions of this Portuguese-Nyassaland loom are : Beam to beam inclusive,67 inches, or T70 m.; width of web, 4 inches, or 10-2 cm.; 25 picks to the inch,or 10 to the cm.; length of heddle rod, 25 inches, or 63 cm., with a diameter of2 cm.; spool, 22-5 cm. long, of the Ba type. The yarn for both warp and weft does. Abbild 23. Webstuhl vom unteren Sambesi. Nach Globus 10/1866. not appear to be indigenous. The warp ends are fixed on to the beams by means ofsome gluten, which has hardened like dried breadcrumbs. The frame of the modelin the Leicester Museum is likewise fixed together with some resinous substance, 1 H. Schurtz, in his Urgeschichte der Kultur (Leipzig, 1900), gives us an illustration of aSwahili likewise laying his warp, and has even the heddles in position, but it is somewhat mis-leading, as he does, to label the illustration Swaheli at a Loom, for the man is not weaving. d 44 H. Ling Koth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. and in the Bankfield Museum model the parts are lashed together. In a Livleziloom, Fig. 87, about to be described, the warp is also fixed to the beams by a sortof resinous gum. Judging from a photograph of a silk loom placed at my disposal by Dr. Sibree,and partly reproduced in Fig. 90, it would seem that occasionally in Madagascar asecond heddle is in us
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