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Studies in primitive looms (1918)

Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Journal · Halifax [Eng.] F. King & sons, ltd · leaf 132

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es 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… … 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…

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