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Photo from Dimen Village of Wu Mnci teaching Anastasya Uskov how to weave a pattern on a backstrap loom. Wu Mnci has helped Anastasya pick four individual ends with the weaver's sword and laid them on the flat sword. She is about to lift the heddle to bring the bottom warp layer up.
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, Anastasya Uskov
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, "Four warp end on weaver's sword" (2010). All Photographs. 2620.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/kam-photos/2620
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, Anastasya Uskov
