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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1596661, member: 8267"]So....I may still be a bit confused, but this is my current understanding: in your first photograph, the top and bottom edges are selvages, which are the finished edges where the weft of the base fabric turns back and forth. So, if you turned the cloth 90 degrees it would be oriented as it would have been on the loom. In that orientation, the black threads of the design would run in the same direction as the warp that is stretched on the loom, and the width of the fabric on the loom would be 22". One of your close-ups shows a folded hem which runs across the black threads, and this would be consistent with the cloth being cut across the warp, which leaves loose thread ends that must be hemmed.The significance of this is that a 22" width is more consistent with a more "primitive" loom, such as a backstrap loom, as opposed to a more substantial floor loom. This might point us in different directions than a 35" loom width. I still think the black decoration was worked in during the weaving process, though it would be a supplementary warp instead of weft, as I first suggested. But I still don't have any good ideas as to where it was actually made. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]