Two-Shaft Treadle Loom with a Split-Cane Reed

On a treadle loom the feet open the shed, leaving both hands for the shuttle. A wooden frame carries the warp beam and the cloth beam; two shafts carry the heddles that lift alternate warp threads; treadles tied to the shafts work them; a batten with a reed, once made of split cane, spaces the warp and beats the weft in. The picture: a peasant handloom from Romania, old engraving.