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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 58

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er illustrates in her work1 a nativeloom which, while then in use in that part of Africa, must have come from else-where, a good but troublesome example of the migration of the arts. On the face of it Wilson and Felkins illustration, although it shows clearlythe fixed heddle, is defective, and on… … F»C,a8. LOO! , PAE.FQUR, WILSONUFELK.INS UtfAN&A. . U>NbON.ifi>6fc. JL. ^ROD A*> SHOUL& B£ OMITTED t WARP FROM A.B TO CD INS£.R.T6tf) with a stick of hard wood beats the weft away from him. This is the usualmethod, but I have seen looms where the weaver beats the weft towards him.…

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