. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . se two forms are called inFrench la haute lisseand la basse lisse,—the highand the low loom. The general principle is the same inboth. Fig. 2 shows a simple form of the basse lisse,such as was used throughout the Middle Ages, except inIceland and in Scandinavia.^ The clay whorls, or piercedcones, decorated with simple painting, which have beenfound in countless numbers on the sites of Troy, Mycenae,and other prehistoric cities, were probably used to strainthe thread as it was being spun on the distaff.*
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . se two forms are called inFrench la haute lisseand la basse lisse,—the highand the low loom. The general principle is the same inboth. Fig. 2 shows a simple form of the basse lisse,such as was used throughout the Middle Ages, except inIceland and in Scandinavia.^ The clay whorls, or piercedcones, decorated with simple painting, which have beenfound in countless numbers on the sites of Troy, Mycenae,and other prehistoric cities, were probably used to strainthe thread as it was being spun on the distaff.* Other Lat. spatha. * Lat. pecien ; modem English batten or lay • See Mon. Inst. Arch. Mom., vol. ix. pi. 42. See the modem Faroese loom figured by Worsaae, A/bildningerfra det k. Museum /or Ji^&rdiske Oldsager, Copenhagen, 1854, p. 123. ^ A fresco by Pintiiricchio—911 in the National Gallery, London—•has a careful representation of the mediaeval low loom ; the subjectis the return of Ulysses to Penelope. Dr Schliemann found 22,000 in the plains of Troy alone. TEXTILES 207. tieavier ones were employed lo stretcn the strings of thewarp; this mothod must have been very inconvenient,as the whole warp could swing to and fro, A veryobvious improvement, introduced in some countries atan early date, was to have a second beam, roundwhich the lower ends of the warp could be Scandinaviancountries the useof weights con-tinued till moderntimes. In the fate-loom of the sagasthese weights areheroes skulls, whilethe shuttle is asword. Some simpleform of weavingseems to have beenpractised by pre-historic man at avery early stage ofdevelopment. shows an ex-ample of coarseflaxen stuff fromthe lake-dwellings of Switzerland, F- 2--Mediaeval low-«arp loom from a cut ... , ., by Josfr Amman; middle of toe loth century. datmg from the • Stone Age. Wool appears to have been the first sub-stance used, as no skill is required to prepare it for spin-ning. Weaving was speci-all
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