At Chengdu

This is very interesting. This is a large and complicated silk weaving loom and it takes at least two people to operate it.

The person sitting above adjusts the pattern to be weaved. The person sitting below does the actual weaving. The machine works in a really complicated fashion and is hard to follow. I studied it briefly but couldn't understand how it works. Silk threads are coming into the loom every which way. It looks like some of the threads are not connected to the fabric being weaved!