The American Indian as a product of environment : with special reference to the Pueblos / by A.J. Fynn.

  • Fynn, A. J. (Arthur John), 1857-1930.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The American Indian as a product of environment : with special reference to the Pueblos / by A.J. Fynn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    four inches in diameter and an inch in width, to which it is made fast some six inches from the less pointed end. When in operation, the implement gen- erally lies loosely at one side of the weaver, and the whole process of twirling it and of converting the wool into a thread is managed with the fingers. Through long practice, remarkable skill is acquired in making ready this raw material for the loom. In preparing the strong filament for the warp, the material is placed upon the spindle and taken off and respun four or five times. The woof is spun less often; and the texture of the blanket, of course, depends upon the number of repetitions in spinning. The warp is prepared upon a temporary frame, consisting of two short slender poles laid parallel to each other on the ground, or perhaps upon four small flat stones, and separated by as much space as can conveniently be covered by the blanket when finished. To the ends of these poles, are bound, at the corners, two slender rods, running perpendicu- larly from one to the other and holding them in place. The warp-thread, after one end of it has been fastened somewhere to the frame, is carried continu- ously back and forth, over and under the poles, cross- ing and recrossing, until it has covered enough of space along these poles to form a warp of desired width. The thread is then broken and made fast to the frame as at the beginning. The next step for the one preparing the warp is