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Title: Are these Loom Weights Post by: ademinelab on March 04, 2012, 05:27:17 PM Hi,
Found these while out today and I'm not sure what they are Shungav thinks they are Loom weights, can anyone shed some light Cheers. Title: Re: Are these Loom Weights Post by: shunggav on March 04, 2012, 08:31:07 PM They do look like loom weights
Title: Re: Are these Loom Weights Post by: Chef Geoff on March 04, 2012, 11:02:16 PM They could be part of an of a loomweight, as in, there could of been many more threaded on to one warp. But as individual loom weights, then no as they are not heavy enough.
Loomweights are very heavy to keep the warp taught while weaving. Most that are found are made of stone and a great many smaller ones that are labelled as loomweights are in fact just spindle whorls. Title: Re: Are these Loom Weights Post by: Val Beechey on March 04, 2012, 11:08:56 PM Chicken shoes ?? ;D
Val Title: Re: Are these Loom Weights Post by: peanut on March 05, 2012, 10:44:55 AM |