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Plying SpindleSf1022

Spindle, consisting of a wooden shaft with a cone shaped whorl near one end with a conical, wrapped section of plied yarn resting on the flat surface of the whorl. The middle of the shaft has a section of losing wound, plied yarn which is attached to a compactly wound round ball of paired yarns. The yarn wound around the shaft is tightly plied while the yarn in the ball is not plied.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wood, wool fibre, hair and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Underbelt LoomSf1021

Rectangular wooden frame loom with a partially woven dark and light brown wool textile stretched lengthwise. The frame is constructed of four pieces of round, peeled wood. Carved pegs on the ends of side pieces fit into slots on the end pieces, securing the corners. Two corners, where the wood has split, are reinforced with cord lashings. The thick, stiff wool fabric stripes extend from both ends of the frame toward the middle and a skein of weft is attached to the last point woven. Approximately one half of the dark brown warp is unwoven. The warp is secured to the interior of the frame by separate lashing cords at each end.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wood, hair, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpindleSf976

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with cup-shaped whorl positioned near one end. The whorl is roughly circular and smoothed by abrasion. A small cone of z spun yarn is wrapped on the shaft above the whorl and a handful of unspun white wool is attached to the twisted yarn. The fleece has some kemp or coarse hairs.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and wood
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpindleSf975

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with a cone shaped whorl positioned near one end. A small section of red, two ply s twist yarn is wound on the shaft above the whorl and a ball of yarn with less plying twist is attached to the spindle.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, wood and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drop SpindleSf978

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with a cone shaped whorl positioned near one end. The whorl has several concentric lines and ridges on the rounded, bottom side. A small ball of paired black yarns, one alpaca and one wool, is attached to the cone of plied yarn which is wrapped on the shaft above the whorl.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wood, wool fibre, alpaca wool fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomNb7.252

Rectangular wooden loom. Centre section has thirty-seven slats, each with a hole at mid-section. Three slats are wrapped with paper. Slatted section is nailed at top and bottom into a three-piece holding frame. Long string, looped and knotted from either end with a loop tied at centre. Short string loops around frame and through slats in centre.

Culture
Nisga'a
Material
metal, cedar wood, cotton fibre and paper
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Drop SpindleSf977

Spindle consisting of a wooden shaft with a cup-shaped whorl positioned near one end. A small cone of z-spun wool is wound on the shaft above the whorl and a handful of unspun white wool is attached to the twisted yarn. The fleece is a combination of finer, crimpy fibres and kemp of hair-like fibres.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wood and wool fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomSf924 a-j

A loom (parts a-j) with an unfinished woven belt. The design consists of three white patterned bands with red and green figurative and geometric motifs all on a red ground. The textile is attached at the top and bottom to cylindrical shaped wooden sticks (part a). Intertwined in the multicoloured warp are two cylindrical shaped heddles; one covered in red twine, the other in brown. There are also two cylindrical shaped wooden tools (parts b and c); five cylindrical shaped wooden tools with a pointed end (parts d,e,f,g,h), all of varying size; one bone pick (part i) and a black and brown braided rope (part j).

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic, wool fibre, wood and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomSf923 a-n

Horizontal ground loom (parts a-n) with a partially woven red textile attached to the wooden front beam by bright lashing cords (part b). The woven cloth has five pattern bands and four bands of stripes in red, white, green and yellow. The geometric patterns are of circles, diamonds, crosses and figurative patterns of birds and fish. Intertwined in the textile are numerous parts: cylindrical shaped shed roll (part m) is in position between two layers of warps and back warp beam (part n) holds the loops of the unworked warps. The shuttle stick (part c) is wound with red weft and is attached to the fabric. Heddle stick (part d) has green cord loops. Shed stick (part f) and (part k) are in position under threads in the pattern areas. Ground stakes (parts g-j) are loose as is the pick (part f) and the shed holder and beater (part e). A braided brown, black and cream alpaca rope (part a) is used to keep the loom and tools together when rolled.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, wool fibre, wood, alpaca wool fibre, bone and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomSf925 a-j

Loom (part a) with partially finished belt, 10.7 cm wide, predominantly red, white and green. The design consists of three patterned bands with figurative and geometric motifs. Woven section lashed to loom bar and twisted warps loop over loom bar at the other end. Shed roll (part b) in position between two layers of warps. One heddle bar with string loops extends full width and two sets of string heddles are tied on the warps in the three pattern bands. The red weft is wrapped on a stick. Accompanying the loom are two roughly whittled and tapered pegs (parts b and c), a bone pick (d), six cylindrical pieces of wood (parts d,e,f,i,h,j) all of varying size.

Culture
Quechua
Material
alpaca wool fibre, wood, synthetic fibre and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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