Robert Watcher
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TRADITIONAL WEAVERS IN EL SALVADOR —- 8 days to create a 55 yard length of fabric.
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TRADITIONAL WEAVERS IN EL SALVADOR
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Robert Watcher
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Asher Kelman
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Robert,
This is so important a photographic enterprise. You have a great eye for opportunity to take us into the actual process of creating cloth. Much of this is as would be done for centuries.
What’s significant is that they are competitive with foreign imports.
But where do the threads come from?
Asher
This is so important a photographic enterprise. You have a great eye for opportunity to take us into the actual process of creating cloth. Much of this is as would be done for centuries.
What’s significant is that they are competitive with foreign imports.
But where do the threads come from?
Asher
Robert Watcher
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Some of the rhythm of the looms. Short video clips
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Robert,
Super that you can add the video clips. Adds a new dimension.
Incredible that everything is rudimentary and handmade from wood!
The movements required of hands and feet to rhythm, makes me think that these workers would make great natural students for a church organ with need to play the keys and slide along so many foot pedals!
Asher
Super that you can add the video clips. Adds a new dimension.
Incredible that everything is rudimentary and handmade from wood!
The movements required of hands and feet to rhythm, makes me think that these workers would make great natural students for a church organ with need to play the keys and slide along so many foot pedals!
Asher
adamsmith
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Robert,
Nowadays, the traditional handmade thing is hard to find. You have done a great job. I really appreciate it!
Nowadays, the traditional handmade thing is hard to find. You have done a great job. I really appreciate it!
Jerome Marot
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Not many centuries. This is a European style vertical loom with a flying shuttle. You will see the shuttle, race and one end box at the beginning of the first video. That design was invented in England in 1733 and it can be argued that the changes it brought started the industrial revolution.
The history of textile making is fascinating, particularly after the end of the 18th century as it is deeply linked to the economical, political and technical changes that made the modern world as we know it. Some time spent on the various wikipedia articles about that technology is always enlightening.
James Lemon
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But the cultivation of natural fibre stresses heavy consumption of fertilizer, pesticide and fungicide. The study has revealed that cotton cultivation consumes only 3% of world’s farmland but uses about 25% of the total world’s pesticide.
https://www.academia.edu/33385916/I...Impact_on_the_Environment_and_Health_A_Review
https://www.academia.edu/33385916/I...Impact_on_the_Environment_and_Health_A_Review
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
What golden light are you referring to and your name needs to be updated to your real name ASAP!
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Asher