Studies in primitive looms / by H. Ling Roth.

  • Roth, H. Ling (Henry Ling), 1854-1925.
Date:
[1934]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Studies in primitive looms / by H. Ling Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    less, from the breast beam the warps are bunched together into twenty-six lots and connected up with the warp beam as in the Kwa Ibo loom, only, instead of all the cord ends being carried to the right-hand top end and there tied into a big knot, they are cut off at various lengths. The heddle, Fig. 59, consists of two strips of cane between and on which rest eight sets of two knots each of the leash ends which support the warp. Every leash, like the warp and weft, consists of about twelve to fifteen separate filaments. Each set of leashes is distinct from the next, i.e., is not continuous and extends only from one knot to the other of its set and not beyond, and is so arranged that when the knots are placed side by side the leashes separate out and cross one another. 4_35 S CM OF FfcAM £ k CAMtftoor^s. salford nos. seuvEocJf. SALFORD MUS. muse un TVAR.V ATTACH¬ MENT . CAMER¬ OON?. SM.FOA d m US. F(6.4a. There is one shed stick made of palm leaf mid-rib. The needle is curved in transverse section, Fig. 60, with the working- or beating-in edge almost as thick as the back or opposite edge, which is usually broader. Sometimes both edges are sharp and frequently the working-edge is serrated with wear. In a loom from the Cameroons in the Royal Salford Art Gallery and Museum there is an arrangement, Figs 61 and 61a, found also elsewhere in West Africa, for obtaining rigidity in the loom frame and therefore better weaving. It consists of two stout rods held apart by means of two cross supports (wood branches) and triced together by means of stays (lianas), the breast and warp beams being made fast to the stays. The holes in the two stout rods into which the cross supports are fitted are at the back of these rods and the cross supports are curved like a bent