I have seen in various museum collections (Trois Rivieres / Quebec City Mus�e de la civilisation / others) a small weaving loom that is identified as a tape loom. It is a small shallow rectangular wooden box. The front narrow short side has holes in it near the bottom edge held closed with pegs. The ends of length wise threads are held in these holes by the pegs. A transversal vertical piece of wood goes accross the long sides. It is pierced in a pattern of slots and holes in a vertical line accross the piece of wood. The length wise threads go through these openings, one thread to each slot or hole. The back cross wise piece of wood has a roller bar mounted on it on which are held the lenths of thread.
Now, the narrow tapes are woven by passing cross wise threads through the length wise threads, just like in a larger loom but in a simpler fashion. I've even seen only the central slotted piece identified as the loom without any other pieces. I suspect the length wise threads would be attached to some stable point on one end and either the person's body or another stable point at the other and the weaving would proceed by lowering or raising the slotted piece to separate the threads into two sets which could be woven through. Some of these simple tape looms (cross piece only) occur in the archeological record for early Europe. Look at Vicking and Celtic grave goods. Lucie DuFresne (Ottawa Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
