Part 1 (1/2)

Ancient Egyptian and Greek Loo Roth

PREFACE

Halifax, which is situated in the heart of the great textile trade of Lancashi+re and Yorkshi+re, has been a home of the woollen manufacture since the earliest time, and it is only meet, therefore, that its museum should possess speci, and cloth ress made towards that end, , and, while we have plenty ofin various parts of the world, we are lacking in everything relating to the industry in Ancient Egypt and Greece Failing speciyptian ones published by Cailliaud, Rosellini, Sir J G Wilkinson and Lepsius, contradict each other in many important points, so that those who study the of the art as carried on in the Nile lands Fortunately, last year, Mr N de G Davies, the well-known Egyptologist, hearing of enerously placed sos at my disposal, and with this invaluable help I have been enabled to complete the present paper, and to lay before Halifax students so upon their staple industry

H Ling Roth

Bankfield Museum, Halifax

April 1913

I EGYPTIAN LOOMS

HORIZONTAL LOOMS[A]

In the to of a horizontal loo on either side, and at the right in the background is drawn the figure of the taskures represented in the act of spinning, etc For the present we are concerned with the weaving only

[Illustration: Fig 1--Horizontal Loom, Tomb of Chnem-hotep, from the illustration in Cailliaud's _Recherches_, etc Same size as published]

Of this illustration, there appear to be six reproductions We have first of all, Fig 1, that of Fred Cailliaud (_Recherches sur les Arts et Metiers_, etc, Paris, 1831) with illustrations of drawings made by himself in the years 1819 to 1822 His publication was followed by Fig 2, that of Sir J G Wilkinson (_Manners and Customs_, etc, London, 1837) Mr John Murray, whose house has published Wilkinson's work from the first edition to the last, infore Scharf, afterwards Sir George Scharf, Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery, but that most of theyptologist Wilkinson's woodcut, although clearly and neatly done, is on a very small scale; nevertheless it ader scale

[Illustration:

Figs 1 & 3 Weaving

Fig 2 Loo in the woof, but not by a shuttle throith the hand

” 4 Male Overseer

” 5 Hackling

” 6 Twisting the double threads for the warp

_a_ Weaving

_b_ Chief of Loo 2--Horizontal Loom, Tomb of Chnem-hotep, from Sir J G

Wilkinson's _Manners and Customs_, London, John Murray, 1878, Vol I, p 317 Sa 3--Horizontal Loom, Tomb of Chnem-hotep, from the illustration in Rosellini's _Monumenti_ (Monumenti Civili), Plate XLI