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Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci unraveling yellow thread as she is adding it to the backstrap loom she is warping. Black, white and pink warp are already wound across the bench, around the metal cylinder that will serve as a shed rod and the weaver's sword. All odd revolutions go over the weaver's sword and under and around the metal shed rod. All even revolutions go under the weaver's sword and over and around the metal shed rod. She has already added one revolution of the yellow warp but the thread has been made 3-ply by the documentary team and is somewhat entangled.
Date Created
2010-07-19
Format
Photograph
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Artisans, Wu Mnci, 吴孟席, Crafts, Women, Backstrap Loom, Making of the backstrap loom, Backstrap loom parts, Work
Location
Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China
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Funding Provided by University of the Pacific
Rights Holder
Marie Anna Lee, c. 2019
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All images and videos provided in the Kam Minority Archive by Marie Anna Lee on University of the Pacific's Scholarly Commons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
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Recommended Citation
Lee, Marie Anna, "Untangling yellow warp" (2010). All Photographs. 2547.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2547
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Artisans, Wu Mnci, 吴孟席, Crafts, Women, Backstrap Loom, Making of the backstrap loom, Backstrap loom parts, Work
