This video is very beautifully filmed. Makes me emotional to see how people back in days worked so intelligently. We take things for granted and it makes me happy to see that the old DIY ways haven’t been lost in history.
Oldest backstrap looms ever found is dated about 7.000 years old, somewhere in southern China. Yuhang and Shizhaishan. Oldest form of backstrap loom is the foot loom. All Asian backstraps root on these foot looms, from China, Korea and Japan down to Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, some Pacific islands and of course on mainland. No one can answer seriously what came first, the egg or the grilled chicken - anyway an history book legend of the Greek time! Some funds proof that first weaving was done at least 32.000 years ago, but there is just the tissue, no loom found! The question is more, first flat warp or round warp? Backstrap foot looms use a round warp! But you can find round warps even on frame looms all around the world (Africa - Yoruba; Madagascar) (South America - Kogi)- none in Europe! There is no proof, but watching these facts leads us to the opinion, that all these techniques are known since much longer times. If we think they came out of one pot, they should be known and practiced for at least 25.000 years! But….no scientifically proof found yet! Fact is, both backstrap and warp weight are both no frame loom-type. In Bhutan (Watch my page for Bhutan Loom - Reaching Bhutan) there is a backstrap loom-type that looks even like a hybrid of vertical warp-weight and horizontal backstrap loom - out comes a beautiful triangular shaped warp. Another fact is, even science never mentions this, that the warping even for a backstrap loom needs and includes the knowledge of framing techniques; without that, no warping! That means, important is not the knowledge of what was first, that will be just of regional importance, important is why they chose this technique, cause it doesn‘t really easy the weaving, and you need all the time total body control to succeed. It‘s the loom, not just the text-tile, that spent cultural identity on that later upcoming kingdoms base on. Backstrap looms became THE insignia that shows out your roots and represents your folk! So these tiny parts that make a backstrap loom is used by ethnology to trace back the tribes all over Southeast Asia. Anyway the loom in this video is a modified version. It uses just a flat warp! On top there are lease sticks, that‘s maximum 1.000 - 2.000 years in combination with loin looms. Like that, it got use to on Java and Sumatra. Authentic older versions use a coil rod and a shed roll instead. Due to the lack of the shed roll, the weavers needs two heddle sticks for a plain weave; a loom with a shed roll needs just one heddle. I can‘t say, which ethnic this type derived of! It‘s not really original, more a mix up of plenty methods to make enable the weaving work! Many backstrappers work similar, but in most cases much more diagonally! Most authentic weavers of backstrap are seated on the ground, using a foot-brace. But anyway for easy warps it works that way too, as we can witness here and anyway beautiful this white warp!
Anyway I argue with the term prehistoric in this combination with backstrap looms. They are still in vivid use all over Southeast Asia, China, even Japan. You find them even all over both or three Americas. Even Some changed to frame looms, you watch them and you may find a lot of vivid loin loom techniques within. O.k., in that moment we may talk about prehistoric in that regional area. So to call it prehistoric it needs a place and a culture mentioned, doesn‘t it! Is a fork a prehistoric tool or a saw?
This video is very beautifully filmed. Makes me emotional to see how people back in days worked so intelligently. We take things for granted and it makes me happy to see that the old DIY ways haven’t been lost in history.
Wow, that is painstaking work.
It's still in use in great amounts around Asia an America.
could you show us a tour of this house and how it was built? it is a beautiful room!
This is a backstrap loom. Still in use, and certainly since a very long time, but prehistoric?
this is so cool
How old is the concept of a backstrap loom?
And was it invented before or after the warp weighted loom?
Oldest backstrap looms ever found is dated about 7.000 years old, somewhere in southern China. Yuhang and Shizhaishan. Oldest form of backstrap loom is the foot loom. All Asian backstraps root on these foot looms, from China, Korea and Japan down to Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, some Pacific islands and of course on mainland. No one can answer seriously what came first, the egg or the grilled chicken - anyway an history book legend of the Greek time! Some funds proof that first weaving was done at least 32.000 years ago, but there is just the tissue, no loom found! The question is more, first flat warp or round warp? Backstrap foot looms use a round warp! But you can find round warps even on frame looms all around the world (Africa - Yoruba; Madagascar) (South America - Kogi)- none in Europe!
There is no proof, but watching these facts leads us to the opinion, that all these techniques are known since much longer times. If we think they came out of one pot, they should be known and practiced for at least 25.000 years! But….no scientifically proof found yet!
Fact is, both backstrap and warp weight are both no frame loom-type. In Bhutan (Watch my page for Bhutan Loom - Reaching Bhutan) there is a backstrap loom-type that looks even like a hybrid of vertical warp-weight and horizontal backstrap loom - out comes a beautiful triangular shaped warp.
Another fact is, even science never mentions this, that the warping even for a backstrap loom needs and includes the knowledge of framing techniques; without that, no warping! That means, important is not the knowledge of what was first, that will be just of regional importance, important is why they chose this technique, cause it doesn‘t really easy the weaving, and you need all the time total body control to succeed. It‘s the loom, not just the text-tile, that spent cultural identity on that later upcoming kingdoms base on. Backstrap looms became THE insignia that shows out your roots and represents your folk! So these tiny parts that make a backstrap loom is used by ethnology to trace back the tribes all over Southeast Asia.
Anyway the loom in this video is a modified version. It uses just a flat warp! On top there are lease sticks, that‘s maximum 1.000 - 2.000 years in combination with loin looms. Like that, it got use to on Java and Sumatra. Authentic older versions use a coil rod and a shed roll instead. Due to the lack of the shed roll, the weavers needs two heddle sticks for a plain weave; a loom with a shed roll needs just one heddle. I can‘t say, which ethnic this type derived of! It‘s not really original, more a mix up of plenty methods to make enable the weaving work! Many backstrappers work similar, but in most cases much more diagonally! Most authentic weavers of backstrap are seated on the ground, using a foot-brace.
But anyway for easy warps it works that way too, as we can witness here and anyway beautiful this white warp!
Anyway I argue with the term prehistoric in this combination with backstrap looms. They are still in vivid use all over Southeast Asia, China, even Japan. You find them even all over both or three Americas. Even Some changed to frame looms, you watch them and you may find a lot of vivid loin loom techniques within. O.k., in that moment we may talk about prehistoric in that regional area. So to call it prehistoric it needs a place and a culture mentioned, doesn‘t it! Is a fork a prehistoric tool or a saw?
i was forced here by my school
I'm here by choice
@@AS-do6pr nice i respect your decision, kinda...
Your school is cool, which is it?
Poor thing! 😎