11/6/2023 0 Comments Japanese backstrap loomAn early nineteenth century Japanese loom with several heddles, which the weaver. It looks like an amazing combination of a loom frame with backstrap weaving. Balanced weaves are also possible on the backstrap loom. One bar is attached to the ceiling of the traditional T'boli longhouse, while the other is attached to the. There are several types of backstrap looms in Japan the simple manner knot loom of the Ainu people on Hokkaido for instance, but also the high-developed half-frame loom types, like the ones used for the famous - yuki tsumugi ( a special Japanese silk weaving). Thank you for sharing this amazing post I recently came across Bryan Whitehead’s web site through Pinterest images of one of his Japanese backstrap looms, so how cool to see his name in your post I hope you’ll some day post something on your blog about them. As someone who likes to plan everything ahead of time to avoid surprises, it was definitely an uncomfortable process-trust that sometime in the future awkward repetition will lead to hard earned “perfection”. Woman weaving a silk rebozo on a backstrap loom at the Taller Escuela de Rebocera in Santa Maria del Rio, San Luis Potos T'boli dream weavers using two-bar bamboo backstrap looms (legogong) to weave t'nalak cloth from abac fiber. Unlike pieces done on backstrap looms, pieces done on these machines have traditionally been done by men with wool being the favored fiber. The foot pedal loom was brought to Mexico after the Conquest. There seemed to be so many tiny (but likely important) details missing in the very complex process of measuring, marking, dyeing fiber, and dressing a loom, but I figured that I’d learn those details while doing it, making mistakes, and fixing the mistakes the next time. The backstrap loom is most prevalent in the south of the country. The first time I got to use a foot brace with a circular warp was when I was visiting with Ju Nie, a Montagnard backstrap weaver, in North Carolina. I also watched a few YouTube videos and looked at photos on John Marshall’s website. This picture of a gentleman in Ecuador winding a circular warp was taken by Dennis Penley in the early 1960s and is used with the permission of C Philip Willett. I got a couple books on ikat (by Jun Tomita and by Van Gelder), which I have to reread because to be honest I couldn’t understand the directions that well. Combined with my developing skills as a weaver, I had all the elements needed to dive into ikat kasuri. Most of my parents’ friends from India, where I was born, seemed to have settled in Melbourne rather than in Sydney where we lived. Fortunately I was able to take classes with indigo dye teacher Takayuki Ishii and shibori master Hiroshi Murase in 2019 which gave me the courage and basic skills to set-up an indigo vat, resist tie patterns and dye thread.
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