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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