With this Champa Station Loom of the Cham people we are going to reach Central Vietnam backstrap weaving. At the moment we are still busy setting up the space warper for that trip, tuning the beamed warp and the loom.
With this warping device for a loin loom, similar to those of the Chakma people in Bangladesh and the surrounding Seven Sister States of Northeast-India we are reaching Bangladesh - preparing backstrap weaving.
An experimental backstrap loom between the authentic models of tribal loin looms, following the stilt loom-types from the Northern hillsides to Southern islands.
By the support of this stilt loom, a kind of Austronesian loin loom, we are reaching the Kanekes/Baduy people of Banten province on Java Island backstrap weaving.
With a little help of the box loom of the Atayal people we reach Taiwan backstrap weaving an advanced foot loom, a kind of Austronesian loin loom. On that short trip through history we take you to the roots of this box loom, a modern version that came out of the original trunk looms. This indicates a big jump from bamboo cane looms to wooden looms.
By the support of this gorgeous station-type of Austronesian loin loom we reach the lost Kingdom of Champa somewhere in time between 1st and 19th century CE. The kingdom of the Cham people is vanished from the map, but the Champa Station loom is still in use; even not many of them are left.
This advanced foot loom-type is an early bird of Austronesian loin looms on Java Island in Indonesia, you won't find that easy nowadays. It demonstrates the development of previous foot looms to later following stilt looms in Indonesia.