Context (Related Documents)
Black and white photograph attached to rear of catalogue card. See catalogue card for ink drawing.
Event Date 1988
Author: rachel hand

Context (Field collection)
Collected during fieldwork in the 1980s by Dr Goody Esther, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Event Date 1988
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Possibly collected on 20 May 1988.
Event Date 20/5/1988
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Hand loom comprised of long pole at the top (piece broken off), for winding on woven cloth after it has been woven on the attached loom/'weaving board', wound with blue and white striped fabric attached to loom or weaving board. On the other side dark blue and white spools attached. Spool of white cotton also attached. Light blue, pink and white cottons also attached on smaller spools.
Event Date 10/6/1988
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Origin field previously read: 'Locally Made'.
Event Date 2005
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
Exhibited in Talking Textiles, a display in the Maudslay Gallery to celebrate the year of Africa 2005 and curated by the Textile Project team.
Captioned: 'Tools for textiles. This case contains examples of the type of equipment used to make the kente cloths shown in the tall case behind you. These tools and materials were collected during fieldwork in the 1980s by Dr. Esther Goody, an anthropologist at the University of Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology. They come from Gonja, a region of Ghana.

Loom D 1988.362
Kente cloths are woven by men, using a double-heddle loom. The loom apparatus is suspended from a wooden frame at which the weaver sits. The woven cloth is wound around the beam at the top. It is connected to the heddle (comb-like device) through which the warp (vertical) threads pass, creating a shed (gap) through which the weft (horizontal) threads can be woven. Spools of indigo-dyed and natural-coloured cotton hang from the heddle. The two gourd discs are held between the weaver's toes to operate the heddle. An unfinished strip of cloth is still attached to the loom'.
Event Date 2005
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
A wooden hand loom with some partially-woven fabric. One one side, three spools of cotton yarn in white, blue, and navy, are being threaded through the slats of the loom; there are also two wooden discs attached, as well as cotton in blue, white, and pink. On the other side, there is a strip of blue and white striped fabric. The end of the strip is wound round a long wooden pole with holes drilled through at one end.
Event Date 23/2/2023
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff