By Eric Broudy
A seriously illustrated vintage at the evolution of the handloom is now reissued in a convenient paper version.
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The earliest spun fibers probably were used to carry or pull things or to fasten stones to sticks to form axes and other weapons. This early cordage was later adapted to fishnets, snares, slings, bowstrings, and other simple uses. The imagination suggests various ways in which spinning may have originated-perhaps from observing certain vines that twined about each other, or by watching the action of a stone ax head as it slipped from the fingers and twirled the fibers to which it had already been knotted, or by idle experimentation.
C. ), several centuries before the discoveries of the Empress Si-Ling-Chi. In Liu's view Si-Ling-Chi perhaps represents the first governmental interest in silk weaving, but he credits the invention of the loom itself to a minister of Hoang-ti by the name of Pei Yu. " Fragments of twill damasks preserved on Shang period bronzes (c. , or about the time of early Scandinavian Bronze Age wool) suggest the use of a complicated loom, probably with many heddles. when four Chinese weavers were kidnapped and taken to Japanhe concludes that the treadle loom was probably a Chinese invention.
Because of the lack of evidence of looms, distinctions between basketry and weaving are often difficult to make, but about this time it becomes clear that basketry and weaving were heading in different directions. In the early 1960s fragments of plain woven cloth with up to 30-´-38 threads per inchas fine as today's lightweight woolswere found at Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia and dated c. C. (fig. 1-3). The fiber might have been flax or possibly wool, but the threads were smooth and well prepared for weaving.