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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 47

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k are used and are turned back at the edge ready forthe next pick and so making a selvedge, Fig. 63, or occasionally two weft ends aretied together in a knot at the edge, which again forms a selvedge. The casual, andtherefore early, stage of the selvedge is indicated by the fact that these knots… … A complicated form of heading is shown in a loom, said to come from SierraLeone, in the Brighton Museum, added to the collection there in 1886, and isexplained by the illustration, Fig. 64. The details are : frame supported by crosssupports and stays is 57f inches, or L47 in., long by 27£ inches,…

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