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Assessing musculoskeletal injury risk and skeletal changes from backstrap loom weaving and traditional embroidery in Chiapas, Mexico.
Published 2025-01-01“…This study investigates how traditional textile work-specifically embroidery and backstrap loom weaving work-affects the body in the Highlands of Chiapas, where these crafts represent a substantial part of thousands of women daily activity. …”
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Testing Mesoamerican Lunate Artifacts as Possible Crescent Loom Weights
Published 2020-11-01“…Other early artifacts are much more difficult to identify, however, because they were involved in textile technologies used only during the Pre-Classic/Formative period (1500 BC-AD 250) and earlier; tools used for these extinct technologies would no longer be produced nor have comparable counterparts after the widespread Mesoamerican adoption of the backstrap loom at the beginning of the Classic period. …”
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