The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the PresentA heavily illustrated classic on the evolution of the handloom. The handloom--often no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordage--has been known to almost all cultures for thousands of years. Eric Broudy places the wide variety of handlooms in their historical context. What influenced their development? How did they travel from one geographic area to another? Were they invented independently by different cultures? How have modern cultures improved on ancient weaving skills and methods? Broudy shows how virtually every culture has woven on handlooms. He highlights the incredible technical achievement of early cultures that created magnificent textiles with the crudest of tools and demonstrates that modern technology has done nothing to surpass their skill or inventiveness. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
The Warpweighted Loom | 23 |
The Twobar Loom | 38 |
Pueblo and Navajo Looms | 63 |
The Backstrap and Other Primitive Looms | 76 |
The Treadle Loom | 102 |
The Drawloom | 124 |
The Modern Loom | 138 |
Bibliography | 170 |
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Common terms and phrases
Ainu ancient Atayal backstrap loom basketry batten blankets bobbin Bronze Age Calderdale Calderdale Museums Service Çatal Hüyük century Chilkat China Chinese cloth beam comber board cotton Courtesy of Calderdale developed Diagram drawboy drawloom drawstrings E. J. Holmyard earliest early Egypt Egyptian Europe example fabric fiber figure harnesses flax Gobelin handweavers heading cord heddle rod horizontal ground loom horizontal loom illustration inches Indian invention jack loom linen loom fig loom frame loom weights loops mechanical medieval Museum of Natural Natural History Navajo Navajo weaving Neolithic Otomi pattern Peru Peruvian pit loom plain weave primitive probably produce Pueblo reed selvage shed rod sheep shuttle Southwest spindle spinning spun starting border suspended sword beater tapestry tapestry loom technique textile top beam treadle loom twill twining two-bar loom type of loom uprights vertical loom warp beam warp spacer warp threads warp-weighted loom weaver weft wooden wool wound wove woven yarn Zoque