Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
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Bankfield Museum Notes, Second Series No. 2 (Halifax, April 1913), in which the museum's keeper H. Ling Roth examines how looms were built and used in ancient Egypt and Greece. He compares published copies of Egyptian tomb paintings (Beni Hasan, Thebes, El Bersheh) with new drawings by N. de G. Davies, and discusses horizontal and vertical Egyptian looms, loom parts such as beaters-in, laze rods, heddles, reeds and warp weights, and the Rameses III linen girdle. A section by W. W. Midgley gives a microscopic examination of fifteen Egyptian mummy wrappings, with a table of thread counts and fibre measurements. The Greek section covers vase paintings, warp-weighted looms, and Scandinavian, Icelandic and English chalk-weight parallels.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1913
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 45
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