Reed

Collection type: Object
Description: Reed
Long description: Reed made from 'Helf', grows in deesert wadis. Small stick of cane-like material. There is an elastic band wrapped around the middle. This does look like a reed for weaving.
Geographical reference: Oman
Asia > Western Asia > Oman; Ash Sharqiyah Ibra
Person: Maker Sa'eed Nasser Habeeb; Field collector Gigi Crocker Jones; PRM source Gigi Crocker Jones
Date / Period: Date made: Before 2003
Date collected: 8 February 1986
Acquisition information: Donated: 2003
Materials and processes: Material Plant, Process Cutwork
Dimensions: Diameter: max 11 mm, Length: max 190 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2003.9.214 Other numbers: No field collector's number
Research and responses: Extract from 'Warp and Weft: A Textile Terminology' by Dorothy K. Burnham, published by Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, 1980. On reeds, pg. 105: 'Reed: an instrument through which the warp ends are passed to keep them evenly spaced and aligned. It is fastened in the batten and also serves to beat in the weft. It is now generally of thin metal strips, called leaves, fastened between two bars of wood or metal. The spaces between the leaves are called dents, and the size of a reed is noted as so many dents to a given unit of measure. '[RJ 18/3/2003]

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