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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 loop around each thread of the bottom warp layer that she pulled up and separated with the weaver's sword. She fixes each loop to the heddle stick. Here she is making the first knot around the heddle stick. The backstrap loom is attached to her waist by the cloth beam pulled through a thick cloth belt.
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, "Heddle stick" (2010). All Photographs. 2597.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2597
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
