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End Finishes Project		 On this temporary page I am collecting photos of Asian village and nomad looms to use in a discussion of warping practices and end finishes. This is a call for help: I will welcome contributions from anyone who finds good photos--or even not-so-good photos--that are informative. We need to see at least one end of the loom clearly, to determine how the warp is attached to the beam. After a nice group is assembled, I will use the most informative examples from a variety of places, along with drawings, to explain the relationships between specific loom set-ups and some of the end finishes in our database.












Lori weavers near Khorramabad, Iran. Mid-20th century. Yörük, Pittsburgh, A. Landreau, ed., 1978, p. 50.






Tabriz loom. Weavers waiting for the carpet to be pulled downward. Cecil Edwards, The Persian Carpet. Figure 10, p. 23.







Lor weavers near Khorramabad warping a vertical frame loom. Mid-20th century. Yörük, Landreau, ed., Pittsburgh, 1978, p. 14. Photo: A. Landreau.
Preparing warps in Arak (Sultanabad). Cecil Edwards, The Persian Carpet, Figure 15, p. 28.








Brocade weavers in the Tarus Mountains of south-central Turkey. Photo: M. Mallett
Weavers in the Kurdish village of Seh Gabi, Kangavar valley in central western Iran. Photo: Louise D. Levine, "Notes on Felt-Making and the Production of Other Textiles at Seh Gabi, a Kurdish Village," Studies in Textile History, ed., Veronika Gervers, Toronto, 1977, Figure 13.







Kurdish weavers in Shiva village, between Bijar and Dehgolan, Iran. Arshi and Zabihi, Kurdistan, Plate 23. Photo: Nasrolah Kasraian.








Turkmen weavers. National Geographic, November 1973, p. 656.









Weaver in Orsille, Yuntdag area of western Turkey. Photo: M. Mallett















Two-harness loom in Bigadiç, northwestern Turkey. Photo: M. Mallett










Young weaver in the Yuntdag area of Western Turkey.  Photo: M. Mallett
Tabriz workshop.
John Kimberly Mumford, Oriental Rugs, New York, 1929, p. 237.









Loom from Kuba District, c. 1900.
Wright and Wertime, Caucasian Carpets and Covers, p. 35







Kurdish silk weaver. Hawraman-i-Takht village, western Iran.  Arshi and Zabihi, Kurdistan, Plate 71. Photo: Nasrolah Kasraian.

Two two-harness looms built in one frame. Siirt, Turkey.  Photo: Mehmet Kiliç.
 

 







Egyptian weaver Garia Mahmoud. 
Harrrania. Photo: M. Mallett






Navajo loom.  American SW.
If you find a loom photo or have one that you would be willing to share,  please E-mail me:  marlam@mindspring.com
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