Reaching beyond - backstrap weaving

A short trip through the world of Austronesian & Austro-asiatic backstrap weaving: With this foot loom-type of the Paiwan and Atayal people of Taiwan we catch a short view back into time and the origin of backstrap weaving, where bamboo canes play an important of role in the philosophy of these tribes. Even this kind of bamboo cane looms are more than years old, they are still in action on Taiwan. The cane looms developed to camphor trunk looms, where the nowadays popular box looms derived from. The Out of Taiwan-Theorie speculated that the Austronesians originated on Taiwan, before spreading, but nowadays facts show out, that they originated from the area around the Yangtze River….about jeans ago! 台灣织机 - 足織機 - 排湾族背带织机