LOOM AND SPINDLE—HOOPER. 639 
Figure 10 is rather a puzzling one, because the artist has combined 
a bird’s-eye view of the loom with a side elevation of the weaver. 
The warp, which is a short one, is simply stretched upon the ground. 
There are no rollers or loom frame of any kind. The weaver is mak- 
ing a carpet or mat, it may be of rushes or grass. The only distinct 
facts to be gathered 
from this drawing 
are that the weft is 
' being beaten down 
and the web is 
growing upward; 
also that the warp 
is fixed at both top 
and bottom. 
In figure 11 two 
weavers work at a 
small upright loom. The weaver to the right is inserting a stick, 
with a hook at the end, into the warp. This hooked stick has been 
the subject of much discussion, but I believe it is really a spindle with 
the weft wound on it, the artist not being able or not having trou- 
bled to indicate the thread. Possibly he was an ancient post impres- 
sionist, and only represented symbols and souls of things, not their 
tome actual appearance 
unin 
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OO DOOGS ior | or sordid detail. 
4a 1 The weaver on 
the left is evidently 
preparing to beat 
the weft together 
with the comb 
which is ready to 
descend upon it as 
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a TaAATAINNLIT 7 we soon as it is in- 
mi | _Serted. Here,again, 
4 a yo \ the warp is fas- 
aw) 
tened at the top and 
bottom of the loom, 
and the web is 
growing upward. As the loom has no rollers either at the top or 
bottom, only a loom’s length of material can be woven on it. 
Figure 12 is a much more effective-looking loom than either of the 
foregoing, although there are many puzzling points about it. It has 
loom posts, and is evidently a solid structure. There are no rollers 
definitely shown, but they may well be there. The arrangement of 
sticks at the top may be intended to represent a skeleton roller, and 
the bottom one on which the cloth is wound as it is made may be 
hidden by the bench on which the very active weaver, wielding the 
Fic. 11.—Egyptian loom in use. 
