A loom with a circular warp attached. The breast beam is made of two sections of bamboo, each with a central section cut out at each end. The bamboo used for the warp beam is uncut. A partially woven multicoloured cotton cloth is attached to the loom. It is warp faced and tabby woven, having one blue and two purple warp faced stripes with areas of predominantly white continuous supplementary weft. These plainer areas are flanked by groups of multicoloured stripes (with fine cream-coloured wefts). There are sundry pieces of loom component, including a sword made of dark coloured wood and a long, narrow stick shuttle filled with maroon cotton weft thread. [Textile]
loom; textile
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