MODEL HAND LOOM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 229, 30 September 1935, Page 5

MODEL HAND LOOM

DEMONSTRATION OF SKILL SCHOOL PUPIL’S INDUSTRY Patience and skill have been shown by an Auckland Grammar School pupil, Morrison Cassie, in the construction of a working model of a European hand loom. The lad is a member of the Boy’s Ethnological Club, which represents only one phase of the educational activities of the Auckland Museum, i'be model is one of many made by club members for a demonstration of weaving held recently. This particular model, which is constructed of odd pieces of material, is Ift. in height and about the same width. The warps and wefts are -of wool, while four heddles are provided lor moving the warp strands. TheYe is a reed for packing up the wefts, and a small shuttle for threading the weftr through, this operation being performed by hand. All these features, or some counterpart of them, are found in the primitive loom as well as in the modern power loom. The owner of the model is at present engaged in weaving himself a scarf in the Grammar School colours of blue and gold. The portion of the scarf that has already betn woven has been wound around a roller.