Looms were devised used by seamsters and weavers to create cloth and tapestries. Looms varied in design and materials but all had the same functionality with movable shuttles.[10] They were in wide use across Faerûn, from the hot sands of Anauroch[4] to the green hills of the Blade Kingdoms.[5]
Availability[]
Gaze once more upon the great loom... available for purchase from Aurora's Emporium.
Looms were sold at Aurora's Emporium and via Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue, these decides came in three sizes: 2 feet (0.61 meters) was priced at 8 gp, 4 feet (1.2 meters) at 12 gp, and 8 feet (2.4 meters) at 18.[11]
Bedine humans of Anauroch used two types of looms,[5] standing and ground-looms. These weaving devices were in common use among people of the sands.[1] Ground-looms were considered a necessity.[12] Similarly, looms were a staple of a Ra-Khati or Khazari home in the Hordelands region,[8] as well as Wa in Kara-Tur.[9]
In Maztica, a feather-loom variant was in use by plumaweavers who created mundane items of resplendent feathers and magical pluma. These looms were found in various places, including the village of Palul, home of the Chosen Daughter of Qotal, Erixitl.[2] These feather-loom were large standing devices decked with feathers and cloth.[7]
The Shadovar used huge, comblike looms to weave shadow blankets, turning shadowsilk into cloth.[13]
Notable Looms[]
- Chromodactylic Loom a powerful artifact that dated back to the Dawn War, created by Corellon and Avandra.[14]
Notable Owners[]
- Jacintha, a Waterdhavian sorceress with a gift to weave any material into fabric, famed for her gemsilk in the late 14th century DR.[3]
- Lotil, a plumaweaver from the Empire of Nexal, father of Erixitl, who worked his feather-loom even after he lost his sight and until his death in 1361 DR.[2]
- Milianna Mannicci da Sumbria, princess of the city-state of Sumbria in the Blade Kingdoms used a loom to re-stitch old embroidery in the mid-14th century DR.[5]
- Ruha and her ex-husband owned a loom she used for weaving in the 14th century DR.[4]
- Vestress, a female rogue illithid of the Kraken Society in the late 14th century DR.[10]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Map included in Troy Denning (July 1991). The Parched Sea. (TSR, Inc.), chap. 3. ISBN 1-56076-067-2.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Douglas Niles (1990). Viperhand. (TSR, Inc), chap. 5. ISBN 0-88038-907-9.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ed Greenwood & Elaine Cunningham (May 2006). The City of Splendors: A Waterdeep Novel. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 4, p. 81. ISBN 0-7869-4004-2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Map included in Troy Denning (July 1991). The Parched Sea. (TSR, Inc.), chap. 1. ISBN 1-56076-067-2.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Pauli Kidd (November 1996). The Council of Blades. (TSR, Inc.), chap. 4. ISBN 978-0786905317.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Elaine Cunningham (March 2002). The Wizardwar. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 13. ISBN 978-0786927043.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Douglas Niles (1991). Feathered Dragon. (TSR, Inc), chap. 5. ISBN 1-5607-6045-1.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 David Cook (August 1990). The Horde. Edited by Steve Winter. (TSR, Inc.). ISBN 0-88038-868-4.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mike Pondsmith, Jay Batista, Rick Swan, John Nephew, Deborah Christian (1988). Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms (Volume II). (TSR, Inc), p. 170. ISBN 0-88038-608-8.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Elaine Cunningham (April 1996). Tangled Webs. (TSR, Inc), chap. 5. ISBN 0-7869-0516-6.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb, Julia Martin, Steven E. Schend et al (1992). Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. (TSR, Inc), p. 75. ISBN 0-5607-6327-2.
- ↑ Map included in Troy Denning (July 1991). The Parched Sea. (TSR, Inc.), chap. 6. ISBN 1-56076-067-2.
- ↑ Troy Denning (November 2002). The Sorcerer. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 13. ISBN 978-0-7869-2795-1.
- ↑ Jennifer Clarke Wilkes (December 2013). “Wondrous Weavings”. In Steve Winter ed. Dragon #418 (Wizards of the Coast), p. 33.