. Studies in primitive looms. for the warp to pass through;the slots begin at a distance of about 2| inches (or 6 cm.) from each end and are H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 119 approximately ?£% inch (or 71 mm.) apart. In the specimen from Hong-kong(Fig. 189), at the Imperial Institute, the beater-in is more massive, to correspondwith the heavy elaborate frame and thicker weft used, and is provided with specialhandles 5| inches (or 14 cm.) long ; the slots alternate in two lengths, the objectof the longer ones is to allow more play and so obtain alternate long and short weftsurface,
. Studies in primitive looms. for the warp to pass through;the slots begin at a distance of about 2| inches (or 6 cm.) from each end and are H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 119 approximately ?£% inch (or 71 mm.) apart. In the specimen from Hong-kong(Fig. 189), at the Imperial Institute, the beater-in is more massive, to correspondwith the heavy elaborate frame and thicker weft used, and is provided with specialhandles 5| inches (or 14 cm.) long ; the slots alternate in two lengths, the objectof the longer ones is to allow more play and so obtain alternate long and short weftsurface, as shown in Fig. 190. The action is clear enough and I am unable to followOtis Mason when he says the Chinese have a large block of wood with saw cutsinclined so as to throw the warp up and down in weaving the Canton matting,1 butthere is no throwing the warp up and down, for it consists of rigid, strong yarn,as in ordinary looms. In this Hong-kong mat loom there are eighty-four warpthreads in a mat-width of three toose ENt>OF FINISHEDMAT. WIDTH MTWE6* POSTS 5 FT. WOTR OF HAT SfT. 34 WARP. The mats obtained on both of these looms are true weaves and differ, therefore,from those made on the vertical mat-making frame of the Ainu. This consists ofa ground beam and an upper beam supported by two uprights, the whole having theappearance of a rectangular frame, stood upright, resting on the ground-beam threads are fixed at intervals on the ground-beam opposite each other ; thesethreads are somewhat longer than the intended length of the mat and have each astone fastened at the loose end. The work begins by placing rushes along the ground-beam between the opposing threads, raising these threads over the rushes, twistingthem half round each other and then throwing them over the upper beam so that 1 Origins of Inventions, London, 1895, p. 247. 120 H. Ling Roth.—SUidies in Primitive Looms. one thread end with its stone hangs over one side and one thread end with i
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