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Description
This 'reed' is made of several hundred lengths of woody reeds, sandwiched in place by two long, thin pieces of wood wrapped tightly with varnished cotton twine. When weaving, the reed separates each individual thread of a warp and keeps them at the proper spacing. This reed has 800 spaces, or dents, making it appropriate to weave finer linen cloth. The reed sits in the beater of the loom, and so is also used to compact the woven fabric as the weaver works.