Summary

Rubber traction pad from the countermarch floor loom. Pads placed under feet of loom to stop any movement whilst weaving. The Countermarch Floor Loom was made for Anna Apinis by fellow survivors of World War II, in Memmingen, a displaced persons camp in Germany with wood scavenged from bombed-out ruins. It was designed by Anna's husband Ervins. Anna used the loom to weave traditional Latvian designs using threads gathered by unraveling old scraps of fabric. Anna brought the loom with her to Australia and continued to weave Latvian designs on it.

Physical Description

Thin, flat, black rubber pad. Rectangular in shape and with rounded corners it features, on one side, small raised nodules with two, thin grooved sections in one corner. Several raised nodules on reverse also.

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