Mac & Magic/Loin Loom Lab/Champa
This is a station-type version of a loin loom or so-called backstrap loom, as it is used by some of the relics of existing Cham people in Central Vietnam 🇻🇳. Since the mid of the 19th century the Kingdom of Champa is erased from the map, but some of its looms have survived. Frame looms have been already common among Cham people; it exists a wide range of looms used by the several groups and casts of Cham people. The Rade people, I.e. use a standard stake loom-type with a circular warp, but without a station as used here.
The Cham people are a part of the Sundanese people, we find usually on Java Island in Indonesia. Before CE the Sundanese settled on Borneo. While some left Borneo targeting to Java, the Cham returned to the mainland and settled along the Mekhong Delta at first. Later establishing the Kingdom of Champa around the 3rd century. The Cham were good sailors and navigators and traders, but it seems they had no really skills in weaving and no loin loom at all. But when establishing the kingdom, they created their type of loin loom to present their cultural status.
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