A PRIMITIVE WEAVING FKAME. 



495 



thick, Avitliout ornaments. The upper piirt is i-ounded and has a pro- 

 jecting handle, as in old-fashioncnl school slates. 



The shuttle is of hard wood and r(\send)les the form of a netting 

 needle which has a deep, rectangular notch at one end and a slitted 

 point at the other end opening into an eye, in the middle of which 

 stands a pointed spindle. This specimen, like all those l)efore men- 

 tioned, hangs free on the warp, and the "sheds" are made by moving 

 the heddle up and down while the warp is stationary at both end.s 

 (tig. 6). 



Example No. 176821, in the U. S. National Museum, is also from 

 Saalfeld. It is made of a thin piece of plain ])oard, and ther(^ are six- 

 teen hcalds and fifteen slits or spaces between the healds. The appa- 

 ratus is 19i inches long, 8 inches wide, and nearly one-half an inch 

 thick, rounded at the upper end, and cut 

 out to form a hand hold or grip. The 

 saw cuts are roughly made, and the holes 

 have been l)urned through with hot wire. 



The shuttle is a small seine needle, not 

 slitted at the point, but having a project- 

 ing spindle in the eye at the pointed end 

 and a deep notch in the other, as in the 

 common seine needle. In this example 

 the shuttle contains white weft thread 

 or twine; the warp lilaments are alter- 

 nating brown, blue, white, and red 

 threads. The shuttle serves also for 

 a batten to beat the weft in place. 



Accompanying this apparatus is a 

 device used in winding off the warp 

 and giving to its filaments the correct 

 length (tig. 7). It is a piece of hard 

 wood, heart-shaped, with a pointed base 

 to fit in a socket and a pointed spool 

 above to hold the yarn. 



In the Museum of the Society for Pomeranian History and Antiipii- 

 ties, in Stettin, are three heddles or weaving ))oards of the type now 

 l)eing considered. Each was collected in Further Pomerania, where the 

 apparatus is called the ''deska," as it is also known in Cassubisch dia- 

 lect. It is in use up to the present day, but among the surrounding- 

 German population throughout the whole of Pomerania, so far as infor- 

 mation goes, it is unknown. The oldest one (fig. 8) measures -1 inches 

 in width and 7 inches in length, is carved out of a single piece of wood, 

 and has nine long openings between the healds which, through manv 

 3^ears of use, have become worn away. These openings or slits are 3 

 inches long and 0.2 inch broad. There are ten perforations for warp 



Fig. 6. 



HEDDLE AND SHUTTLE, FROM SAALFELD, 

 EAST PRUSSIA. 



Cat. No. 175642 a. U.S.N.M. Colkit.d liy 

 Elizabeth Lemke. 



