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1952.15.0031a-e :: vävstol

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Vävstol för man jämte fyra skyttlar. Man´s loom, complete except for suspension and anchor. The heddles and comb are hung from a curved pole springing from behind the weaver, or from the branch of the tree, the roof of a hut, etc., at such a height >

that the sticks attached to the lower end of the heddles can be operated conventiently by the feet.

The large palm rib at the proximal end of the loom is supported by two forked sticks and sticks are thrust through the holes at either end to act as levers and enable the woven cloth to be wound on the palm rib roller, which is then jammed by resting the leavers against the earth.

The distal ends of the warp threads rest on a curved flat stone or large petcherd and are held in palce by heavy stone so that they slide towards the weaver as the cloth is wound on the roller.

The cloth which is being woven is the normal type of men´s weaving for blankets, five or six strips being sown together when completed.

The cloth is known as Luru, the warp thread being Zare (boiled in a herbal preparation to shrink them) and the weft Abawa (loosely spun and unshrunk). Contrast with the cloth No 62, which is made wholly of Zare.

The blue thread is died with indigo, the brown with the bark of the tree Marka (vide Dalzell, "Flora of Tropical West Africa"). The thread spun by women of Soba village, and the loom constructed by the weaver of the same village; the shuttles made in Zaria City or Markarfi town, Northern Zaria. Purchased from the weaver, 1952. 22

Längd, d: 19,5 cm, e: 18 cm (registrerarens anm.) (katalogkort/originalbeskrivning)

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