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The Courthouse Site: Loomweights and Whorls

Orit Shamir

Akko II, 2016, p.91

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Título:
The Courthouse Site: Loomweights and Whorls
Autor: Orit Shamir
Assuntos: Applied arts ; Applied sciences ; Architecture ; Arts ; Basalt ; Buildings ; Civil engineering ; Construction engineering ; Courthouses ; Earth sciences ; Engineering ; Excavations ; Geology ; Geometric shapes ; Geometry ; Government buildings ; Igneous petrology ; Igneous rocks ; Institutional buildings ; Manual arts ; Materials ; Materials science ; Mathematics ; Petrology ; Physical sciences ; Polyhedrons ; Polytopes ; Pure mathematics ; Pyramid shapes ; Textile art ; Textiles ; Warps ; Weaving
É parte de: Akko II, 2016, p.91
Descrição: Ten loomweights and five whorls, indicating textile production, were found at the Courthouse Site, dating to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Loomweights serve to weight the warp threads in the warp-weighted loom (Shamir 1996), while whorls are used as weights for spinning fibers into threads. A whorl may be hung on the spindle to weigh it down (Israeli 1962), thus allowing the spindle to turn and twist the fibers together. Only loomweights that have been sufficiently wellpreserved were weighed and measured. Presented below are maximal heights and diameters, as well as the minimal perforation diameter and two measurements of conical
Editor: Israel Antiquities Authority
Idioma: Inglês

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