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Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci beating the fell, or the edge of fabric just woven, with the weaver's sword after the weft is pulled through the natural tabby shed on a backstrap loom. The warp ends in the middle have been raised where they would normally be pushed down. Wu Mnci has picked them with the weaver's sword from the top warp layer and has added them to the warp from the bottom layer. This has resulted in a white block breaking the black stripe that forms when no warp ends are added.
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, Weaving on backstrap loom, Work
Location
Dimen (地扪村), Liping, Qiandongnan, Guizhou, China
Acknowledgements
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, "Beating the fell" (2010). All Photographs. 2611.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2611
Keywords
Kam, Dong, Guizhou, China, Chinese Minority, Cultural preservation, Dimen Village, Artisans, Wu Mnci, 吴孟席, Crafts, Women, Backstrap Loom, Weaving on backstrap loom, Work
