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Definition of Low-warp-loom
1. Noun. A handloom in which the warp is carried horizontally; for weaving tapestry.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low-warp-loom
Literary usage of Low-warp-loom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tapestries, Their Origin, History and Renaissance by George Leland Hunter (1912)
"In the low warp loom the coloured cartoon is usually beneath the warp and often
rolls up with the tapestry as it is completed. But sometimes in copying ..."
2. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Giving a Descriptive and Critcal Account of by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison (1910)
"The low-warp loom was a flat frame set horizontally, and the worker stood or sat
leaning over his work. In the long run this position is more tiresome, ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1898)
"Two kinds of looms used to be in vogue in the early days of tapestry-making, the
high warp and the low warp loom, the former having the threads arranged ..."
4. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"... modern English batten or lay. low-warp loom, from a cut by middle of the 16th
century. used to strain the thread as it was being spun on the distaff.7 ..."
5. The Life of William Morris by John William Mackail (1911)
"The low-warp loom, which had replaced it elsewhere, he at once dismissed as
useless for his purpose. In it the task of the weaver is confined to copying the ..."
6. Catalogue Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst Loan Collection by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Arthur Upham Pope, San Francisco Art Association (1917)
"The low warp loom has the advantage of greater rapidity, as the warp threads can
be lifted by a treadle operated with the foot, and so the hands are both ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... for the woman : — He gives ears of corn to Adam and t sheep to Eve — Medieval
low-warp loom, from a cut ЪУ J03' Amman ; middle of the 16th century. ..."
8. Catalogue Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst Loan Collection by Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1917)
"The low warp loom has the advantage of greater rapidity, as the warp threads can
be lifted by a treadle operated with the foot, and so the hands are both ..."
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