Bone weaving comb from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Bone weaving comb from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Bone weaving comb ornamented with horizontal and diagonal lines, from Nybster Broch, Caithness, 200 BC - 400 AD

Long-handled weaving comb of cetacean bone, from Kettleburn, Caithness

Handle of a bone weaving comb, from Dun an Fheurain, Argyll

Long-handled weaving comb, from Galson, Lewis

Square bone weaving tablet with two pairs of small irregular perforations, from Jarlshof

Weaving comb of oak with tapered handle and seven short teeth: North America, USA, Navajo, 1992

Traditional weaving, entitled Transition, an interpretive landscape inspired by the arid, rich and expansive Arizona landscape, with banded appearance in hues of red and blue, and accents in natural brown, woven in Churo and Merino wool dyed and over-dyed with cochineal, madder and indigo: North America, USA, Arizona, Navajo, by DY (Dorothy) Begay, 2006

Weaving shuttle, handmade from a short branch of shrub stripped of bark and wound with a long length of natural cotton: Africa, Malawi, Chikwawa, Tisunge Heritage Centre, by Hendrix Lossan, early 21st century

Weaving tools, seven parts of a backstrap loom: Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kapit, by Helen Manjan anak Atong, 2019