File:History of Inventions USNM 31 Loom.jpg
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English: No. 1. Aino loom for weaving belts of ohiyo (elm) bark. Single heald ; primitive shuttle ; sword batten ; warp spreader with holes burnt through.
No. 2. Mexican loom with .single heald rod, primitive shuttle, and sword batten. No. 3. Navaho loom with three heald rods, sword batten, and weft of different colors in hanks, not in shuttles. No. 4. Babylonian loom with four sets of healds and reed batten. No. 5. Heddle cut from a single board. Other examples are made of reeds held in parallel crosspieces. No. 6. Italian loom, same as No. 5, in its heddle, with yarn beam and ratchet. |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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