Step 5 : building the loom

I like this because I prefer to engage in new crafts by learning the older ways before the modern ways.

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The construction of the loom takes time (over an hour), skill and patience. The first step in the warping is obtained in two ways.
It consists in making the chain separated in two tablecloths of even and odd wires. In a wall, the weaver plants four pickets all-around of which she rolls up the wires of the chain with regular interval according to a definite order. This method allows the villager work alone but it is not common in the High Atlas.
The beaming, as the shearing of the sheep is the occasion to remind the rustic cohesion by the community mutual aid.
Satin the feet of the pickets which they sink in the ground, remote from about ten meters, the two villagers roll up and tie the thread that makes roam the third woman by forming a vertical necklace along pickets.

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