A short dictionary entry on the straw-fabric loom, a loom for making goods with a weft of straw, where each piece of filling is laid in separately. It notes that such looms work with straw, slats, splints, wands, willows, cane, rattan, palm-leaf and whalebone, and refers readers to the slat-weaving loom entry. It ends with a list of related U.S. patents issued between 1862 and 1874.