Backstrap loom with red, blue, yellow, and orange warps

Object/Artifact

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Front of loom

Front of loom

Name/Title

Backstrap loom with red, blue, yellow, and orange warps

Entry/Object ID

2023.6.33

Description

Backstrap loom with four warps: in red, blue, yellow, and green threads. Loom includes back beam rod, front beam rod, thin cloth beams at each end of the loom. Loom does not include string heddles, shed sticks, shed rod, or batten. There are five lease strings tied around five different 'crosses' in the warp threads.

Collection

Milton Sonday Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2023.6

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

backstrap looms

Search Terms

looms, weaving

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Loom

Width

30.5 cm

Length

58 cm

Dimension Notes

Length of entire loom (front beam rod to back beam rod). Width of front and back beam rods.

Dimension Description

Warp

Width

9 cm

Length

55.5 cm

Dimension Notes

Length and width of warp yarns.

Parts

Count

7

Parts

1. front beam rod 2. back beam rod 3, 4. cloth beams 5. lease strings 6. warp threads 7. lease strings

Material

Wood, Cotton

Color

Brown, White, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green

Location

Box

Box 57

Cabinet

Object Cabinet

Room

Studio

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Object Label

Label

Arrived with note: '4 Warps - Good for compl. warp'

Research Notes

Notes

"Backstrap Weaving" by Barbara Teller and Marilyn Anderson