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Based on information collected from field surveys carried out from Sept. 2006 to Aug. 2007 in Longzuishi, a village of Miao ethnic group in Yunnan province, this paper described sets of spinning and weaving devices and tools used by Miao women to spin hemp, reel hemp thread, wind weft thread on a spool and weave hemp thread into cloth.
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Wang, LH. (2009). An Introduction to the Spinning and Weaving Devices and Tools of the Miao Ethnic Group in the Northeast of Yunnan Province. In: Yan, HS., Ceccarelli, M. (eds) International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9485-9_14
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