Backstrap Loom

Indigenous loom in which tension is maintained by a strap passing around the weaver’s back or hips. The variable tension created by the weaver leaning forward and backward tends to draw the warp yarn closer together.

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.

265930325: UMO. [Caption] Back strap loom. Source: Kimberly Jones, "Inca: Conquests of the Andes / Los Incas y las conquistas de los Andes," Label Copy (Looms), 2015 (after Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, 1615, p. 217).

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