The handloom--often no more than a bundle of sticks and a few lengths of cordage--has been known to almost all cultures for thousands of years. Eric Broduy places the wide variety of handlooms in historical context. What influenced their development? How did they travel from one geographic area to another? Were they invented independently by different cultures? How have modern cultures improved on ancient weaving skills and methods?
Broudy shows how virtually every culture, no matter how primitive, has woven on handlooms. He highlights the incredible technical achievement of primitive cultures that created magnificent textiles with the crudest of tools and demonstrates that modern technology has done nothing to surpass their skill or inventiveness.
- ISBN10 0442211058
- ISBN13 9780442211059
- Publish Date 1 January 1978
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
- Format Hardcover
- Language English