Hand-made loom with a weaving intact

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A hand-made loom with weaving intact. The loom is made out of a wooden fruit crate and popsicle sticks. There are twenty four (24) popsicle sticks attached to a wooden bar at the top of the loom. Each stick has a hole in it with a piece of thread running through it. The bar and popsicle sticks were once moveable and would have been used to push the rows of threads together. There is a blue and tan weaving attached to the loom. The ends of the threads are tied to nails, which are nailed into the top and the base of the loom. On the proper left side of the loom there is a black design with a setting sun and text which reads [GROWN AND PACKED / IN / CALIFORNIA / U.S.A.]. There is a stamp which reads [122899]. Several of the popsicle sticks have indented text which reads [U.S.A. popsicle].

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