Breast Beam

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A beam at the front of a treadle loom over which the woven fabric passes on its way to the cloth beam. In this way the cloth beam can be placed out of the weaver’s way under the plane of the weaving.

Excerpt from
Ann Rowe, “Glossary,” in Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador, edited by Ann Rowe, Laura Miller and Lynn Meisch (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007): 289-295.

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General Description
A beam at the front of a treadle loom over which the woven fabric passes on its way to the cloth beam. In this way the cloth beam can be placed out of the weaver’s way under the plane of the weaving.

Excerpt from
Ann Rowe, “Glossary,” in Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador, edited by Ann Rowe, Laura Miller and Lynn Meisch (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007): 289-295.

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*Arts of the Americas
~American Indian
textiles (visual works): AAT: 300014063
*Latin American Art
weaving: AAT: 300053642
.glossary
textile materials: AAT: 300231565
textile working equipment: AAT: 300163224
treadle looms (handlooms): AAT: 300312165
cloth beams (textile fabricating tools and equipment): AAT: 300312169
breast beams (textile fabricating tools and equipment): DMA
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