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Skirt Border LoomSf1034

Long, rectangular skirt border loom with black squares on a dark red ground. Dark red skein of yarn attached to weaving. Unwoven section of white and red wool including the area with heddles is quite tangled.

Culture
Quechua
Material
sheep wool fibre and dye
Made in
Chincheros, Apurimac, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomSf1160 a-b

Loom for making wrist bands (parts a-b) consisting of a piece of branch wood (part a) that is bent and tied into a teardrop shape. It is bound only at the point where the two ends meet. Attached to the loom is a half completed wristlet with two shuttles. Part b is the wood beater or weaving sword, in an elongated diamond shape, made out of very hard wood. One end of beater is a sharp point, the other end is blunt.

Culture
Mayoruna
Material
wood and palm fibre
Made in
Peru ? or Brazil ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Loom1060/26

Loom consisting of three horizontal pieces of wood with a partial weaving and a toothed comb-like wooden tool with a pointed handle. The weaving is red with blue and green stepped triangle design, the tips of the triangles not quite meeting at the centre, with two off-white triangles at the centre and two more at the sides as well as an off-white band above and below the design.

Culture
Navajo
Material
wool fibre, cotton fibre, wood and dye
Made in
New Mexico, USA ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Loom1097/1

Loom formed out of a narrow stick that is bent around to cross itself; overall teardrop shape; a cord is strund across the inside near the narrow end. The loom has a partially finished weaving on it with warp strands strung from the cord over the round end and back down to the cord again; completed weaving on about a quarter of the length on both sides; small sticks are woven through the other end for about a third of the length as guides for weaving fibres.

Culture
Interior Amazonia
Material
wood and plant fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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LoomSf1018 a-g

Loom (part a-g) consisting of a partly woven belt with unwoven warps, attached shedding devices and accompanying wooden and bone tools. The symmetrically striped warp and belt section has three chevron bands flanked by rainbow colour stripes set against a dark red ground. There are cylindrical loom bars at each end; the bottom bar is part c. In the middle are three sticks with string heddles and a shed roll (part b). In addition, there is one stick with a flattened point and another straight (part d), round stick for rolling the cloth (part e). Two small skeins of blue yarn extend from each side of the woven web at the final row. There is a slightly smoothed bone pick (part f) and a length of brown cords (part g) is used to tie the bundle together.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, wood, bone and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Backstrap LoomNi55 a-d

Loom (parts a-d) consisting of a partially completed brown and grey-white double-faced weaving on complete backstrap loom (part a). Intertwined in the weaving is a batten (parts b) and two lease sticks (parts c-d) that can be removed along with four shed rods and two heddle rods are tied to weaving. The long looping stitches attach weaving to front and back loom bars. Detailed are three horizontal rows of abstract geometric designs of beige diamonds, x’s and triangles on a brown ground. Part b is a wooden batten, trapezoidal in shape. Parts c-d are a smaller, thinner version of part b.

Culture
Huichol
Material
bamboo grass, wood, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Jalisco, Mexico and Nayarit, Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Teaching LoomSf380

A teaching loom consisting of a partially woven tubular fabric with unwoven threads passing through punctured holes in a rectangle of corrugated cardboard and knotted behind. The pattern is made up of repeated white and blue lozenge pattern on a red ground with green and pink stripes. A pair of red weft yarns extend from the final woven row. A clear, plastic cylindrical shaped bar has been passed through the threads.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre, paper, plastic and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fringe LoomSf1009

A loom with an incomplete textile; the shedding device is a number of narrow sticks with one hole in the centre of each which are lashed together leaving narrow spaces. This is lashed to a longer round stick. The unwoven warps are threaded through the holes and the spaces between sticks. 241 cm of unwoven warp twist together on one side of the shedding device. On the other side is 33 cm of unwoven warp and 304 cm of woven band with fringe like loops extending from one side. The band is speckled grey and the fringes alternate areas of grey with short areas of red, blue, white and green. At the junction of the woven band and unwoven warp, two weft of cross threads are attached to the textile. One is a small grey finger skein and the other is also grey but is wound on the shaft of a wooden spindle with a cone shaped whorl.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre, wood 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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Model LoomSf950

A rectangular loom with an incomplete fabric attached. The loom is made of four slightly smoothed sticks lashed together with strips of sheep-hide. The mottled red warps are lashed to each end bar with separate cords. Thick grey and black striped fabric is at one end of the taut; closely spaced warps. A length of grey and black weft yarn is still attached.

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