The caption reads, 'Ancient Spinning and Weaving, perpetuated in Africa at the present day.

From Wilkinson's "Ancient Egyptians", p.

85, 86.' The web, or cloth on the loom, mentioned, has the vertical threads, or the warp, hanging, perhaps five feet, from a horizontal beam.

The woof is passed through from side to side .-- A.

L., 1997.
Numbers of other articles are brought for sale to these sleeping-places.
The native smiths there carry on their trade.