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Hearst Museum object titled Hook beater, accession number 9-23835, described as Hook beater. Thompson's gazelle horn used in weaving.

Hearst Museum object titled Hook beater, accession number 9-23836, described as Hook beater. Iron tent pin, bent used in weaving

Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 9-23838, described as Piece of ground loom, natu. The end of a weaving was cut off, the 8" of the previous piece hemmed, and a dowel was inserted in the sleeve. The warp and completed weave of this end piece were used to demonstrated for a class which Um 'Eid gave to some women I brought to her house. The rest of the warp was previously used to make shoulder bags and ornamental pieces to sell at the market. White with red, green and orange plain weave patterns, horizontal and vertical stripes. Loom includes two beams, heddle bare with brown wool heddles and stick shuttle with beige sheep wool. Z-ply, warp-faced plain weave, 6 EPI. sheep wool, wood

Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 9-23839, described as Piece of ground loom, natu. Made of synthetic yarns bought in quantity and plied by family members on hand spindles. It is the end of a much longer piece 31" of it woven. It came with one beam of black plastic pipe. There is a sleeve for the other beam, where the cloth was folded and sewn. The heddle bar is 1"x1" waste lumber; heddles of red and red-orange synthetic yarns, and white sheep wool. The warp and weave are bright color on black. Red, fuchsia, green, blue, and white in stripes, molar pattern, il'weirjan, and checks. The family made a lot of these for their use as cushions and rugs. See #23. Made for self. S-plied, warp faced plain weave, 13 EPI. synthetic yarns, sheep wool

Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 9-23840, described as Loom, natu; spindle, mighzil, distaff, tighzalah. This loom was set up for a demonstration for me. It is plain weave and of rough brown sheep wool from the hairy, indigenous sheep whose wool resembles goat hair. The yarn is thick and dirty and there is absolutely no pattern in the weave. The beams and rods are of rough waste wood, intended for a wider piece of weaving. The heddle rod is a dowel formerly a broom or mop handle. Heddles are of orange wool. These weavers hung the heddle rod on wooden supports made from forked tree branches. They were buried in the sand and moved as the weaving progressed. They are 17" long and 1/2" in diameter. The stick shuttle is 21" long and made of a palm branch 3/4" thick. The Cross rod is a used 1"x1" piece of waste lumber. The spindle is very simple and doesn't even have a whorl, but only a nail. there is a large ball of spun singles yarn on it. The distaff is split palm branch 25" long and approximately 1" thick. The twisted wool roving is jammed into the split. The sword beater she used was amazingly rough; it did not come with the loom nor did the gazelle horn that she used as a hook beater. S-twist, Z-ply, warp-faced plain weave, 5 EPI. sheep wool, wood

Hearst Museum object titled Spindle, accession number 9-23837, described as Spindle, commercially made. 19" x 1/2" shaft, 4.5" diameter cross-shaped whorl.

Hearst Museum object titled Spindle, accession number 9-23808, described as hard and smooth wood shaft, slightly bent and cracked in places. The single-bar whorl is of softer wood, rough and chipped, with rounded ends. The shaft inserted into a hole in the whorl, with a piece of cloth to give it grip. A flat metal hook is pressed in the hole against the shaft. The whole assemblage is tied on with a piece of nylon magenta cloth. The yarn on the spindle was made to demonstrate the process for me: gray goat hair and yellow cotton yarn made by unraveling a piece of cloth I had brought. An assortment of yarn from various women in the village, some cotton or blend, some goat hair, some made of unraveled cloth. A tuft of multicolored nifhs, unraveled cloth, is included. All are Z-plied. The samples demonstrate the variety of spinning techniques used, the imagination and play with color in spinning and plying, and the ingenuity in the use of available materials among poor people of a remote area. All made for self

Hearst Museum object titled Yarn, accession number 9-23829, described as 21 balls/bundles of hand-spun and dyed Bedouin yarn: cotton, sheep, and goat wool in reds, burgandy, oranges, creams, natural browns (light and dark), blue-green.