A short note by T. A. Joyce describing a miniature pre-Spanish Peruvian loom of the Chimu period in the British Museum, with its dimensions and construction. The loom is set up for double-faced cloth with two warps and two wefts, white and brown cotton, and has two heddle rods and a reed shed-stick. Joyce describes the continuous warping, the twined selvage, the cat-and-stepped-coil design, and the thread counts. He compares the heddle-leash arrangement with looms elsewhere and dates the piece to after about 1400 A.D. and before the Spanish arrival.

A short note from the journal Man by T. A. Joyce on a Proto-Chimu pottery bowl from the Chicama Valley, Peru, whose painted lip shows eight women weaving at looms under matting-roofed sheds. Joyce observes that none of the looms has a heddle, so the textiles are tapestry, and the patterns run diagonally to limit vertical slits. He then discusses Max Schmidt's conclusions on Peruvian tapestry slit treatments (open slits, sewing, overlap, interlocking wefts) and suggests the heddle came late to Peruvian weaving, possibly not before contact with the Inca.