Mary Lois Kissell

Name: Aboriginal American Weaving
Author: Mary Lois Kissell

Aboriginal American Weaving

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“Aboriginal American Weaving”, is a work by Mary Lois Kissell. It explores elements such as weaving, warp and weft.

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ These belts may be woven with two or four sheds according to the style of weaving desired, while another method of pattern work on two shed weaving has the addition of a round stick run into the warps so as to raise certain threads while the weft passes two or three times underneath producing a variety of damask weaving.
The stretch between these simple methods of primitive peoples and machine methods of modern life is great indeed and we will long continue to wonder that with such crude devices these people could produce results which compare favorably with our modern weavings. ”

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ In Figure 10 only a portion of a blanket from the Hopi Indians is shown, that the delicate design may be better seen. A number of Hopi patterns have this fine white line of tracery upon the dark background and it is this play of the fine line pattern on the fabric which is one of the chief beauties of Hopi weavings. The sparkle of white is even more brilliant in Figure 11, another smaller weaving from the same people. ”

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ These designs are first painted upon a pattern board the size and shape of those which are to appear upon the blanket, and it is from this pattern board that the squaw weaves her pattern. But although the woman (Figure 7) does weave the blanket, the man also has his part in the process as he furnishes the loom, the pattern board and the skin of the goat. The squaw prepares all the materials and collects the bark, for the warp is of shredded two-ply cedar bark wrapped with a thread of wool, while the weft is entirely of the soft wool of the mountain goat. [10] ”

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ Here the loom work is at a more advanced stage of development than that of the northern area, the weavers making use of a loom frame, sheds, healds, batten and an improvised shuttle. The Navajo Indians are the most skilled weavers north of Mexico and a description of their weaving is fairly typical of this area. ”

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ In technic the blanket is related to the last one described for it is a twine weaving, but a twilled twine as the two strand weft encloses two warps at a move and with each succeeding line of weft advances one warp giving the surface a twilled effect. ”

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ Then the hairs are plucked out and thrown away and the wool is ready to be spun. During the spinning the woman also sits upon the ground with legs outstretched, with the crude wool by her left side within easy reach. ”

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ She [6] finishes the edge by turning up the warp ends below the last line of weft and binds them with a row of twining just above this last weft.
FIGURE 2.—MAT WITH CHECKED DESIGN.
In their industries, primitive people always utilize the materials found in their environment, because no means is afforded them, as in modern life, for the transportation of materials from a distance. British Columbia is rich in cedar trees, so it is not strange that material from this tree enters so largely into the weaving of this region. ”

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Mary Lois Kissell, Aboriginal American Weaving

“ They make constant use of the diagonal or twilled technic, a weave which requires that the warps be divided into four sheds, the [17] upper supplied with a shed stick, the three lower with healds. The sheds are shifted in a variety of orders for the construction of different patterns. ”

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