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Ancient Loom Weights at the J. Paul Getty Museum [PDF]

open access: yesGetty Research Journal, 2023
The article presents a group of twenty-two mostly unpublished terracotta loom weights in the Villa collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Most have been classed as coming from the southern Italian Peninsula and are discoid or hemispherical. A functional analysis based on experimental archaeology demonstrates that these loom weights were used for ...
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Loom Weights From Archaeological Excavations in Memphis: Some Considerations on Dating of Vertical Loom in Egypt

VVostok (Oriens), 2022
   The paper is devoted to investigation of clay and stone loom weights that were found during the archaeological excavations of the Centre of Egyptological Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Memphis (Egypt).    The loom weights are divided on six groups: ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped, semicircular, pyramidal, tear-shaped, and trapezoidal ...
exaly   +2 more sources

Loom weights in Archaic South Italy and Sicily

open access: yesOpuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, 2015
Textiles are perishables in the archaeological record unless specific environmental conditions are met. Fortunately, the textile tools used in their manufacture can provide a wealth of information and via experimental archaeology make visible to an extent what has been lost.
Hedvig Landenius Enegren   +1 more
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31. Loom Weights

2016
Lin Foxhall, Alessandro Quercia
exaly   +2 more sources

Gender, Identities, and Material Culture in the Italic Peninsula: Burial Practices and Loom Weights in Perspective

open access: yesEtruscan Studies, 2021
Relecture par Jean-Yves BartInternational audienceThis paper discusses the complex relationship between material culture and gender studies from a methodological point of view, with the aim of contributing to discussions in the field of Classical ...
Airton Pollini
exaly   +2 more sources

Of the Warp-weighted Loom

The Annual of the British School at Athens, 1937
The ancient world had three chief types of loom, the horizontal ground loom, the vertical loom with upper and lower beams, and the vertical loom with warp weights. The third is the subject of this study, but for a clear understanding of it the character of the other two looms must be understood, and diagrams of all three types are therefore included ...
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Time to decrease the weight attached to looming?

Trends in Neurosciences, 1999
Rind and Simmons[1] have provided an excellent description of how neurones respond to looming stimuli. Unfortunately, however, their article missed some of the recent trends in the story of how humans judge time to contact (ttc). In particular, recent work suggests that previous accounts of human timing behaviour might have exaggerated the role of ...
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The conservation of 63 Anglo‐Saxon loom‐weights

The Conservator, 1996
Abstract A series of sixty three loom‐weights displayed on a wood and plaster base were cleaned and restored. A new base was constructed from modern lightweight materials. The surface of the new base had to be an exact copy of the original plaster support to hold the loom‐weights in the same positions as they were found in when excavated.
R M Entwistle, J Pearson
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Digital loom weights at Priniatikos Pyrgos

2013
This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by ...
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