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A piece of equipment on which thread or yarn is woven into cloth. Video here.

Amasis 2Women weaving on a loom. Black-figure lekythos attributed to the Amasis Painter (detail).  Ca. 550-530 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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