Beads and beadwork of the American Indians : a study based on specimens in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (1929)
Orchard, William C · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 142
106 BEADS AND BEADWORK threads were introduced and evidently became popular, perhaps be- cause they were regarded as a labor-saving commodity, if not as a novelty. With the use of threads instead of cloth ravelings, the twined or twisted weave was apparently abandoned in favor of the … Fig. 102. — Technique of the weave of Sauk beaded garters. more simple square weave, in which two weft-strands are made to pass over one warp-strand, with a bead between the warp-strands holding the weft-strands together. Specimens of the twined-warp weave have been collected from the Mohegan,…
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