Loom Design/Loomates
A collection of mainly Austronesian & Austro-asiatic loin looms, mentioned also backstrap looms, waist looms or scientifically defined body-tensioned hand looms. There are several types of backstrap weaving looms, that all started with foot looms more than about 7.000 years ago and developed up to a kind of half-framed looms.
These pages are still under construction, and this matter will keep for a while. The Loom(m)ates Collection tries as much as possible to work bilingual, in english and german.
The Loomates Collection focuses first at all onto informing the backstrap weaving tribes and nations about the immense wide range of loin loom types and its much wider spreading. To all the people, that have taught us all about loin loom weaving, each a part! Even most of you we never met! And all you, who have carried this cultural heritage thousands of years over mountains and high tides into the present age!
For most of the tribes it may be difficult to travel to even one of these places to witness their own grace. Visiting a museum doesn't fit either into most's daily schedule! But smartphones have entered nearby the jungle area! There are plenty of public informations, photos and videos about loin looms available on the net, but none is a all around collection. This collection tries to bundle at least the Austronesian and Austro-asiatic loin looms, as far available.
So to reach all these different nations and ethnic groups it needs one language to transfer. For the written part a plain English is chosen as far as possible, but the main language of this site shell become the pictures and videos, that most people should be able to follow. Anyway, even written words become more clear by their supporting statement. Our native language is German, so some thoughts and concepts need to be developed in German language, that we try step by step to translate into English phrases. Some pages are supported by a Google translator, but not all! But even this wouldn't reach all the people! Sorry, but we work on it! Some pages contain even local language for important items in Chinese, Indonesian, Hindi, Thai and so on!
At the moment some pages have no photos at all,
other appear just in English, others only in German!
- Sorry, it needs time to weave all these looms! -
For a introduction to the world of backstrap looms you may first at all visit the grouping of loin looms.
Loomates - backstrap weaving video collection on youtube
Next to this site Loomates runs a video-collection of public videos about loin looms on youTube! It's sorted by ethnic groups and nations! You will find even some examples sorted into loom categories and groups. It's probably the quickest way to get an overview about all these types of backstrap looms! Several of these will be linked into this site for further discussion and explanations about.
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