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===Stick shuttles=== ====Unnotched stick shuttles==== At their simplest, these are just sticks wrapped with yarn. They may be specially shaped, as with the bobbins and bones used in tapestry-making (bobbins are used on vertical warps, and bones on horizontal ones).<ref>{{cite web |title=Tapestry Weaving with Soumak |url=https://betweenandetc.com/product/tapestry-weaving-with-soumak/ |website=Between and Etc.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Churchill Candee |first1=Helen |title=The Tapestry Book |date=1912 |publisher=Fredrick A. Stokes |edition=The Project Gutenberg eBook [EBook #26151] |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26151/26151-h/26151-h.htm}}</ref> <gallery mode="packed"> File:Greekurnwithweavers (cropped to warp-weighted loom).jpg|Shuttles are passed, not thrown, through [[warp-weighted loom]]s. These Ancient Greek weavers have a yarn-wrapped stick.<ref name=Pakenham>Article describing the experimental reconstruction of the 6th-7th century [http://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/10/Volume%20XXXIX%20Part%203%20(1999)_Anglo-Saxon%20loom%20from%20Pakenham%20Suffolk%20S%20J%20Plunkett_273%20to%20298.pdf#search=loom Anglo-Saxon warp-weighted loom from Pakenham, Suffolk]</ref> File:Rea-Menzies in studio.jpg|Tapestry bobbins are used on vertical-warp looms. File:Nécessaire du licier (haute lice).jpg|Tapestry bobbins, empty and full Principaux outils de la tapisserie de basse lisse sur le métier à tisser (flûtes, grattoir, peigne, poinçon).jpg|Tapestry bones are used on horizontal-warp looms File:Chantier de fouilles à Morigny-Champigny en juin 2012 24 (cropped to bones).jpg|Tapestry bones actually made from [[cannonbone]]s (those in the last image are wooden) File:Dhaka weaving machine.JPG|Paper quills (paper bobbins) used as tapestry bones in [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh. </gallery>
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