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kind of weaving in their pretty, irregular fashion, and it was probably from the birds and other small, wild creatures that the earliest human mothers took their lessons in weaving, and learned to m

ere woven. To this day almost the same kind of looms are used by the Indians in our far Western country, many miles away from the roar and cla

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d you will find at the nearest carpenter-shop, if not in your own home, and for the rest, a paper of

Make the heddles of two flat sticks, nine inches long, half an inch wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick (Figs. 13 a

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ust eleven inches apart. On these lines, beginning one inch from the side edge of the board, make a row of dots exactly one-quarter of an inch apart, twenty-nine dots on each line, as in Fig. 12.

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When driving in the pins let them all slant evenly outward, the ones on the top lines slanting toward the upper edge of the board, those on the lo

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y be passed through. One heddle is left perfectly plain, like

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r edge, exactly in the middle between the first two lines, start a slanting line and bring it down to meet the second line where it touches the long line. Between the second and third lines draw another slanting line to meet the first at the bottom, forming a V. Leave the third line, and make another V at the fourth, and so go the length of the heddle, drawing a V at every other short line. At the top between the V's make smaller V's, as in Fig. 17. With a sharp knife cut out these notches, bringing th

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ird flat

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r yard of colored cord in half, pass the end of one piece through one of the holes in the notched heddle, the end of the other piece through the hole in the opposite end of the he

ight on the long line, drive the carpet-tack to serve as a cleat f

ust th

or from the top to the bottom of the loom, are called the warp. Soft, rather co

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per line, and then down and around the third and fourth pins on the lower line. Up again, down again, crossing two pins each time, back and forth until the last pin on the lower line has been reached. Wrap the warp around this pin several times,

ting in the

e, divides the warp into upper and lower threads, and forms what is called the shed. While the threads are separated take the other hed

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for woof will depend upon what you are going to make. Germantown wool is used for the woo

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the colors most frequently used by the Indians-red (scarlet), white, and black, about half a hank of each. Take five yards of

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left-hand corner of the loom, on the long line, making a

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you, and stand the plain heddle on edge. This will lift the lower threads of the warp above the others and make them the upper ones. Push the shuttle back through the shed, lay the plain heddle flat, an

he shuttle through, leave the thread like Fig. 21, and then push i

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ped out like Fig. 21, comb it down toward you with the comb, and it will fit in evenly between the threads of the warp. As the wo

, turn it back and weave it under and over several threads, and start a new piece with the end just lapping the old. The ends of the woof must n

stripe and another narrow red one. Put a long thread of white wool in the shuttle, and weave a white stripe one inch wide. You will have to thread the shuttle twice for this, as too long a thread will make so large a bunch that it will be difficult to pass it through the shed. After the white stripe weave another black,

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g will become more difficult, and

3.-Weaving the

d do not take up the last thread of the warp; pass the shuttle under three threads, turn on the next thread, and bring it back under four threads (C, Fig. 22), once more under the three threads, turning on the next as before, but passing back under two threads only. Turn on the next

n the next five threads, then a third one which will take in the last warp-thread on the lef

the black up into points as you did the red, making two whole and two half black diamonds. Leave the woof qui

o whole diamonds, then the next, and fill in between the whole and the last half diamond. This will give you a pattern of black diamonds on a red ground. Weave the last of the red woof once across, the

erks pull it off the lower row of pins. Tie together the first and third loose ends of the warp close to the edge of

way will closely resemble the real India

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n hour with candle-wick for woof. This should not be packed tightly, but woven with rather a loose mesh. Then there are cunning little rag rugs to be made for the dol