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Title: Studies in primitive looms
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Journal
Subjects: Weaving
Publisher: Halifax (Eng.) F. King & sons, ltd
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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d not at bottom only. The sword beater-in has a bent haft somewhat like the H. Ling Roth.—Studies in Primitive Looms. 87 handle of a kris.1 The back strap is of wood. With the presence of the backstrap and the single heddle the necessity for any loom frame has not yet becomeapparent, although the two warp posts form a beginning. A similar form of loom is illustrated in Fig. 145, copied from that of a Baliweaver by Nieuwenhuis, in the periodical Nederlandsh-Indie. In this the warp boardposts or supports are slotted from the top down the middle and not at the front edge.In another model (Fig. 146), also brought home by Shelford, the warp beam fitsinto a pair of posts swung from the top of tbe loom frame, which look as though theyhad originally been on the ground, as shown in Fig. 144. In a Pahang loom modelgiven me by Leonard Wray, and at present in Bankfield Museum, these hanging GAU WOMAN ATH£R LOOM,FROM A.W. Nl£UW£NHUlSIN MEDERLAN&SCH iNDie ,0UD» NIEUW. AMSTERDAM FIG-, 14-5
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supports have become elongated arms provided with oblong openings at their ends(Fig. 148) into which the warp board fits. This arrangement looks very like that ofthe going part of our hand looms. A still further development is to be seen in a Kelantan loom mode broughthome by W. W. Skeat, now in the Cambridge Museum of Archseology and Ethnology,in which the arms or side battens have disappeared altogether, leaving only theends, furnished with the warp beam openings, which are held up by cord (Figs. 147and 149). It will be noticed in one of the Malay and Bali arrangements (Figs. 146 1 A model Malay loom in the British Museum from the Rani of Sarawak has a similarbeater-in. 88 H. Ling Eoth.—Studies in Primitive Zooms. and 147), that the warp emerges, so to speak, from the lower edge of the warp board,while in another Malay loom (Fig. 144) the warp comes away from the upper edge.In Baffles History of Java, Plates, 1844, pi. IX, we are given an illustration ofa loom, native name tenunan

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