Stage showing the manufacture of a woven braid on the short side of a multicoloured, striped textile length. The striped, warp-faced braid uses the warp ends of the main textile as weft. The warp of the partially woven braid is attached to a pair of heddles, a wooden reed, and wound onto a small wooden stick (warp beam). The wooden top bars securing the string heddles are linked by a black and cream cord to a metal pulley. Slightly thicker cream cord is tied to the ends of one of the wooden bottom bars. The textile is decorated with wider stripes separated by narrower stripes, arranged in 3 different sets in orange, brown, yellow, green and cream.The banding is decorated in black,cream, light brown, orange, and violet. A section of leather strap, possibly the backstrap of the braid loom is detached from the object.
stage of manufacture (loom weaving)
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