. Studies in primitive looms. TEMPLEi*-HEADING -ROBVbrGAST BEAM WOODENBACK-STRAP JA^A_LOO^I_ RAFF UES HI ST. OF JAVA. .TLATES. _P0R THE 3AK£ OF CLEARNESS ALL BUT WA^PS tWW£ bEEN OniTT£J>(THE INOmEN--CLATVRE IS MY OWN). A* WARP BEAM SUPPORTING- POSTS SET IN THE GROUND UPT&TtfE BASE OF & J3. H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 91 web fine and even throughout. Apart from the figured pattern in the cloth itself,the brocade of gold thread—gold (?) tape wound round a two-fold yellow yarn—. <7 ooz\jW-J«£ a. z to in necessitates a second set of heddles, and
. Studies in primitive looms. TEMPLEi*-HEADING -ROBVbrGAST BEAM WOODENBACK-STRAP JA^A_LOO^I_ RAFF UES HI ST. OF JAVA. .TLATES. _P0R THE 3AK£ OF CLEARNESS ALL BUT WA^PS tWW£ bEEN OniTT£J>(THE INOmEN--CLATVRE IS MY OWN). A* WARP BEAM SUPPORTING- POSTS SET IN THE GROUND UPT&TtfE BASE OF & J3. H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 91 web fine and even throughout. Apart from the figured pattern in the cloth itself,the brocade of gold thread—gold (?) tape wound round a two-fold yellow yarn—. <7 ooz\jW-J«£ a. z to in necessitates a second set of heddles, and for making the dhooty (figured border)there is what is known as a dhooty bobby, a set of heddle leashes bunched, butwithout any rod, as in the African mat loom (Fig. 59) and the African cotton loom 92 H. Ling Roth.— Studies in Primitive Looms. (Fig. 87). * Separate hardwood polished sword beaters-in are used for the figuredpattern and for the brocade pattern. The reed is well and neatly made, the canesare fastened top and bottom and show considerable elasticity. The laze rod is ofhard palm rind with the ends spear-shaped as in the Ilanun loom (Fig. 134). Theshuttles belong to type Bbl, the gold-thread spool being topped with a carvedknob.* A flat warp board similar to those above described, but placed horizontallyinstead of vertically,is met with in Cambodia and is illustrated by J. S. Black3 withoutany explanation in the text. I have reproduced it in Fig. 152 and the reproduction is,I hope, accu
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