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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 each warp thread of the bottom warp layer and fixes it to the heddle stick.

Date Created

2010-07-19

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Keywords

Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Crafts, 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

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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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Keywords

Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Crafts, Backstrap Loom, Making of the backstrap loom, Backstrap loom parts, Work

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