The blanket weaver — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Navaho woman seated at a loom out of doors, seen from the rear: 'In Navaho-land blanket looms are in evidence everywhere. In the winter months they are set up in the hogáns, but during the summer they are erected outdoors under an improvised shelter, or, as...
Genre: Industrial Photography Close view of Barlow's patented double Jacquard loom: 'In Mr. Barlow's double jacquard loom (82), two cylinders are employed, and the cards are disposed upon these in alternate order, so that, while one cylinder and its card are brought into action upon the horizon...