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Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci tying the end of the backstrap loom she just took off a warping bench to a wooden post on her veranda. She pulls on one end of the thread while using her other hand to hold the cloth beam and bamboo weaver's sword to keep it from falling out.
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, Garments, Women, Complete women's garment, 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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Lee, Marie Anna, "Tying loom to a post" (2010). All Photographs. 2578.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2578
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Artisans, Wu Mnci, 吴孟席, Crafts, Garments, Women, Complete women's garment, Backstrap Loom, Making of the backstrap loom, Backstrap loom parts, Work
