"Ikat"? gives an interesting "blurr" to the design as it is being woven..
-----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of stils...@netspace.net.au Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:48 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Vietnamese loom Hmm, I used one of these when visiting a workshop in Bali (and had to pay five thousand rupia for the privelige of doing someone's work for five minutes. I gotta say, my five minutes was equal to about twenty minutes of the regular operator's. The thing is called either a back-trap or back-strap loom (my memory and my host's heavy accent mean it could be one or the other). It is operated row-by-row with the aid of a foot pedal and a horizontal hand bar, all timber. You work the lines of thread horizontally through the vertical threads set onto the loom. You can vary the thread for colour as you go but, amazingly in Bali, I saw thread pre-dyed at various points so as to create a regular pattern. I would give twenty zillion dollars for my brane to remember the term for this technique but it is 115 degrees here and I am not about to go thinking. Still, the pattern is fantastic, a little blurred at the edges due to the in-exact way the pattern comes out. I have a couple of shirts with it as a feature pattern around the collar and splodges of the dye on the main part of the shirt -- they really don't set dyes well thereabouts! -C. ------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
