Primitive and Antique Looms
Sample pages
Page 1, at reduced quality. Open the document to read every page in full.
Extracts from a 1918 club lecture comparing primitive and antique looms from many cultures. It describes South Sea Islander, Alaskan, ancient Greek, Egyptian, Navajo, Zuni and Hopi, Indian hill tribe, Peruvian, tapestry (Gobelin and Beauvais), Chinese, and Colonial/Swedish looms. It emphasizes how the basic warp and weft principle carries through to complex heddle and pedal looms.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1919
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
(A free account is all you need)
From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
Have missing pages or a better copy of this document, or another document to share? Contributing documents »