Loom Design · 08. October 2022
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 and developed up to a kind of half-framed looms.
Loom Design · 04. October 2022
Bhutan provides one of the greatest designed backstrap looms ever seen.
Loom Design · 04. October 2022
The Chakma people in Bangladesh are using loin looms for backstrap weaving.
Loom Design · 04. October 2022
There is not that much left of the loin loom cultures in Thailand. Just the Karen people at the borderline to Myanmar are still using backstrap looms. The rest of Thailand has swopped to frame looms by the influence of Indian cotton weaving techniques.
Loom Design · 03. October 2022
There are actually no loin looms left on mainland Malaysia, but in Sarawak on Borneo island plenty of ethnic backstrap looms are left.
Loom Design · 02. October 2022
The Katu people are one of only left backstrap weaving ethnic groups in Laos using a foot loom.
Loom Design · 30. September 2022
The Karen in Myanmar are famous for their backstrap weaving by loin looms.
Loom Design · 04. September 2022
A video tutorial on warping a loin loom by Samili Ingtipi, a weaving lady of the Karbi people in Assam, Northeast-India.
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