--------+-------+--------+--------++----------------------------------- | | | || Micro Measurements of Ten Fibres Specimen|Nature | Warp | Weft || in Millimetres. No. | of | Ends | Picks |+-----------+-----------+----------- |Textile| per | per || Weft. | Warp. | Mean of | Fibre.| Centim.| Centim.|+=====+=====+=====+=====+=====+===== | | | ||Max. |Min. |Max. |Min. |Weft.|Warp. ========+=======+========+========++=====+=====+=====+=====+=====+===== 1 | Linen | 17 | 12·6 ||·0181|·0076|·0178|·0076|·0144|·0142 2 | " | 4 | 6·7 ||·0142|·0076|·0143|·0089|·0126|·0133 3 | Wool | 88 | 15·6 ||·0305|·0101|·0305|·0127|·0188|·0178 4 | Linen | 25 | 12·6 ||·0178|·0101|·0203|·0050|·0140|·0145 5 | " | 22 | 7·8 ||·0203|·0076|·0203|·0101|·0145|·0147 6 | " | 19 | 9·5 ||·0203|·0101|·0254|·0101|·0155|·0159 7 | " | 19 | 7·8 ||·0229|·0101|·0254|·0101|·0180|·0178 8 | " | 14·1 | 6·3 ||·0305|·0076|·0229|·0101|·0174|·0157 9 | " | 19 | 9·5 ||·0152|·0076|·0152|·0076|·0208|·0130 10 | " | 12·6 | 23·6 ||·0305|·0076|·0278|·0076|·0147|·0157 11 | " | 31·5 | 14·1 ||·0178|·0076|·0254|·0076|·0135|·0142 12 | " | 37·4 | 15·6 ||·0229|·0101|·0203|·0101|·0147|·0149 13 | " | 19 | 14·1 ||·0229|·0101|·0178|·0101|·0155|·0124 14 | " | 22 | 9·5 ||·0278|·0076|·0203|·0101|·0159|·0149 15 | " | 25 | 14·1 ||·0203|·0127|·0178|·0101|·0147|·0140 --------+-------+--------+--------++-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----- It is very obvious they had no scale to work to. FOOTNOTES: [A] To the uninitiated I may explain that in a horizontal loom the plane of the warp is more or less parallel with that of the floor, while in an upright or vertical loom the plane of the warp is at right angles to that of the floor. [B] To avoid indistinctness through over reduction, I have endeavoured to keep all reproductions in this paper as large as possible, and think I have succeeded in not losing any detail in the necessary reduction. [C] Hay's drawings are not published but can be seen in the Brit. Mus., Add. MSS. No. 29823, Fol. 32. [D] Olafsson, to be referred to later on, remarks that while in Ovid's time the _spathe_ was used for beating-in the weft, in Seneca's time the weft was beaten in by a toothed instrument. In other words a weaver's comb--the embryo reed--had been introduced. II. THE GREEK LOOM. [Illustration: Fig. 28.--A Bushongo weaver at work. From Torday and Joyce, _Notes Ethnographiques_, _Ann. du Congo_, p. 182.]