Object class: Looms (textile tools) / Culture or time period: Mesoamerican peoples / Loans: S1976-1977 #8: The Mexican Museum (August 20, 1976–November 1, 1976) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object class Looms (textile tools) Culture or time period Mesoamerican peoples Loans S1976-1977 #8: The Mexican Museum (August 20, 1976–November 1, 1976)

Hearst Museum object titled Backstrap loom, accession number 3-22476a-k, described as Loom with woven band. Cloth beam, warp beam, red shuttle, white shuttle, three “treadle” sticks, four beaters.

Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 3-25486a-j, described as Back-strap loom; wood; with textile in process. (length 24 cm x width 53 cm); a) Warp breast beam - length 68 cm. b) Cloth beam or roller - length 69 cm. c) Shuttle - length 54 cm. d) Beater - 90 cm x 6 cm. e) Leash rod and leashes - length 75 cm. f) Shed roll - length 79 cm. g) Supplementary rod- length 76 cm. h) Heading rod - length 74 cm. i) Warp beam - length 69 cm. j) Back-strap, fiber length 43 cm, width 7.5 cm. Total loom size: length 1 meter 40 cm, width 53 cm. Native name and meaning: Mecopal native name for back-strap band. Materials, techniques: loom; wooden frame. Cloth; cotton. Warps; varicolored, alternating ikat (jaspe) striped and solid strips. Weft; red. Back-strap band; maguey fiber. Context of use: Used by women. Maguey fiber band strapped across weaver's back, used for holding vertical threads of loom taut while weaving. Extra thread kept in basket ( See Cat. 3-24393 a-t). Made by: loom made by men.

Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 3-23512a-i, described as Loom in process; a) leather and hemp cord back strap; b) wood batten; 59.1 cmlength; c) loom bars, two; 69.2 cm length; d) material in process, white cotton with free-standing brocade animals; e) heddle; f) wood bobbin; 75 cm length; g) shed rod; 71.1 cm length; h) extra loom bar; 71.1 cm length; i) cane; 58.4 cm length. Note with loom reads "tenter (pg.32) a piece of bamboo held in place by long thorns is lost from this loom.