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Home > College of the Pacific > Kam Minority Archive > Crafts > Backstrap Loom > Making of the backstrap loom

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Making of the backstrap loom

 
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  • Examining warp by Marie Anna Lee

    Examining warp

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci examining the warp wound on the shed rod of a backstrap loom she is setting up. She just trapped herself to it hooking ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Smoothing warp by Marie Anna Lee

    Smoothing warp

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci smoothing out the warp layers on the backstrap loom she is setting up.

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Smoothing warp by Marie Anna Lee

    Smoothing warp

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci smoothing out the warp layers on the backstrap loom she is setting up.

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Counter shed by Marie Anna Lee

    Counter shed

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci pulling up the lower level warp threads to form a counter shed. The counter shed forms when the lower level warp crosses the ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Counter shed by Marie Anna Lee

    Counter shed

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci inserting a weaver's sword between the counter shed that forms when the two warp layers cross.

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Making tabby heddle by Marie Anna Lee

    Making tabby heddle

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci starting to make a tabby heddle for the backstrap loom she is setting up. She has inserted the weaver's sword in the counter ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Making tabby heddle by Marie Anna Lee

    Making tabby heddle

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci starting to make a tabby heddle for the backstrap loom she is setting up. She has inserted the weaver's sword in the counter ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Lease cross on backstrap loom by Marie Anna Lee

    Lease cross on backstrap loom

    Photo from Dimen Village of a lease cross on a backstrap loom. The metal shed rod separates the warp into two layers. A weaver's sword is inserted n the counter ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Tabby heddle by Marie Anna Lee

    Tabby heddle

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci beginning to make the tabby heddle for a backstrap loom using a small heddle stick. The backstrap loom is attached to her waist ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Heddle stick by Marie Anna Lee

    Heddle stick

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci beginning to make the tabby heddle for a backstrap loom using a small heddle stick. Using a three-ply black thread, she makes a ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Making tabby heddle by Marie Anna Lee

    Making tabby heddle

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci making the tabby heddle for a backstrap loom using a small heddle stick. Using a black thread, she makes a loop around each ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Making tabby heddle by Marie Anna Lee

    Making tabby heddle

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci making the tabby heddle for a backstrap loom using a small heddle stick. Using a three-ply black thread, she makes a loop around ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Tabby heddle detail by Marie Anna Lee

    Tabby heddle detail

    Photo from Dimen Village of a detail of a tabby heddle that Wu Mnci is making on a backstrap loom. Using a three-ply black thread, she makes a loop around ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Tabby heddle detail by Marie Anna Lee

    Tabby heddle detail

    Photo from Dimen Village of a detail of a tabby heddle that Wu Mnci is making on a backstrap loom. Using a three-ply black thread, she makes a loop around ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Tabby heddle by Marie Anna Lee

    Tabby heddle

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci pulling the bamboo weaver's sword out after finishing the tabby heddle for her backstrap loom. As the bottom warp threads can be pulled ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Finished tabby heddle by Marie Anna Lee

    Finished tabby heddle

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci pulling the bamboo weaver's sword out after finishing the tabby heddle for her backstrap loom. As the bottom warp threads can be pulled ...

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Natural tabby shed by Marie Anna Lee

    Natural tabby shed

    Photo from Dimen Village of a detail of finished backstrap loom with a tabby heddle.

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

  • Green thread by Anastasya Uskov

    Green thread

    Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci pulling green thread from a spool.

    Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China

    2010-07-19

 
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