Warp Weighted Loom

[richsc]

All these posts about weaving your own tunic: how about spinning your own thread as well with a drop spindle? Now that would take persistence!
I have the Martha Hoffman book on Warp Weighted Looms, but the emphasis is not our period. Does anyone know of a different book?

BTW, there are websites that have general diagrams of design and operation:

[url:1rd5p691]http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Warp/WARP.HTML[/url]

[url:1rd5p691]http://www.housebarra.com/EP/ep02/20wwl.html[/url]

[Lepidina]

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years of Women, Cloth and Society
by Elizabeth Wayland Barber is really good but irritatingly, stops right before Roman times. Grrr...good info on Egyptian weaving and spinning, which would have been used in ancient Rome as well.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookse ... 3484&itm=1

Deb

[Viventius]

There's a couple of pics showing Comitatus members demonstrating textile crafts - including using an warp-weighted loom, drop spinning and naalbinding, and a display of tablet weaving, here (if the link works):

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/sgnuk/album?.dir=/68fd

Yes, the ladies are all heavily decked out in heavy cloaks - it was a chilly April in 2004!

Viventia