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The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China
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Abstract , Excavation of the Han Dynasty chambered tomb at Laoguanshan in Chengdu, south-west China, has provided the earliest known evidence of pattern loom technology. Four model looms, along with accompanying artefacts and figurines relating to the weaving process, give insight into the technique of jin silk production. The discovery is hugely significant as it provides the first direct evidence of pattern-weave textile production in ancient China. Jin silk, made using this method, was both valuable and widely distributed, and the design of the machine influenced the invention of later looms and the spread of technology throughout Eurasia and Europe, representing great technological accomplishment for the second century BC.
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“Excavation of the Han Dynasty chambered tomb at Laoguanshan in Chengdu, southwest China, has provided the earliest known evidence of pattern loom technology.”
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“These models constitute the earliest evidence of such a linkage mechanism in Chinese weaving technology”
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“These date to the second half of the second century BC”
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“At present, they are undoubtedly the earliest models of pattern looms in the world”
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“and are the earliest evidence for the use of pattern looms in China (Chengdu Institute of Archaeology & Jinzhou Conservation Center for Cultural Heritage 2014).”
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“The pattern loom models excavated from Laoguanshan document, for the first time, the early history of this technology in artefact form.”
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“It pre-dates the previous earliest evidence for this weaving technology by several centuries”
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“Two 100mm-high grilles made of bamboo, each with 19 compartments, stand on either side of the loom castle to contain the pattern shafts”
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“four wooden models of pattern looms, and associated figurines and paraphernalia from a model textile workshop, excavated from a Han Dynasty burial at Laoguanshan, Chengdu, south-west China.”
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“From the tomb style and the discovery of a Western Han bronze coin, the chamber was dated to the reigns of Emperors Jingdi (157-141 BC) and Wudi (141-88 BC) of the Western Han Dynasty.”
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“This system is also a linkage mechanism, similar to that used in the pattern loom(s) described from Laoguanshan.”
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“The early date of the find suggests that it influenced the invention of the draw loom (see Zhao 2014).”
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“Several textile terms described in the late Han Dynasty poem Jifu fu resemble components of this pattern loom, such as sheng for warp beam, fu for cloth beam, da kuang for loom body, guang for shaft, zhou for treadle axle, tu er for cloth beam, gao lou for castle, yu for shuttle and lu lu for pulley (Xu 1999).”
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“This means that, in the kingdom of Shu at least, weavers must have used a pattern loom for weaving jin silk with warp-faced compound tabby.”
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“The preservation of red silk thread coloured by cinnabar, and brown silk thread on the Laoguanshan models, strongly suggests that looms with multiple shafts were used to weave textiles similar to those from Mawangdui at Changsha, in Hunan province, and Fenghuangshan at Jinzhou, in Hubei province.”
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“So-called jin silk (Zhao 1999), dating to the previous Warring States period (fifth-third centuries BC) and the Early Han Dynasty (second-first centuries BC), has been excavated from other regions.”
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“The Laoguanshan discovery suggests that the pattern loom was first invented in China in Chengdu, the ancient kindom of Shu.”
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“each with their name written on the breast and probably representing weavers or weaving-related workers”
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“Later, during the Three Kingdoms period in the third century AD, a pattern loom for damask weave with either 50 treadles and 50 shafts, or 60 treadles and 60 shafts, was in use at Fufeng (Wang 2009), near present-day Xi'an.”
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“The 14 vacant grille compartments enforce the idea that, in this regard, the loom model was only an imitation of a real pattern loom.”
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“Four model looms, along with accompanying artefacts and figurines relating to the weaving process, give insight into the technique of jin silk production.”
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“they testify to the very advanced weaving technology of the treadle loom in East Asia as early as the second century BC”
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“and represents the missing technological link responsible for the renowned Han Dynasty Shu jin silks, which are frequently found along the Silk Road, and were traded across Eurasia.”
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“Moreover, the axle treadle is also attested in later Han Dynasty contexts, as shown by an oblique treadle loom for plain weave, from the first or second century AD.”
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“The discovery is hugely significant as it provides the first direct evidence of pattern-weave textile production in ancient China.”
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“Together with these pattern loom models, other weaving-related tools and paraphernalia were recovered through excavation, including warping devices, a warping board, silk rewinders and weft winders, and also 15 painted figurines, including four male weavers and female weaving assistants in the act of warping, weft winding and rewinding.”
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“Moreover, they reveal an innovation that scholars had not previously considered: the use of a treadle to power the loom, and a hook beam to select the pattern shaft.”
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“Loom 186 is the largest model, with dimensions of 0.85m long, 0.26m wide and 0.5m high, while the others, L.189, L.190 and L.191, are smaller”
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“This find also provides relevant information about the proportions of both the model and the real loom based on the size of the human figurines.They were around 0.25m tall, giving an approximate ratio of 1:6; this was subsequently used for our reconstruction of the Han hook-shaft pattern loom.”
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“Four model pattern looms, with devices for warping, rewinding and weft winding, were found in tomb two at Laoguanshan, along with 15 painted wooden figurines”
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“The size of the whole set, including loom and accompanying weaver figurines, is approximately one-sixth that of life size.”
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“Our reconstruction of L.186, the largest of the models, indicates a loom body 550mm long, 240mm wide and 120mm tall, supported by four legs, on which stands a loom castle, 250mm long, 230mm wide and 180mm tall, made of four slotted poles.”
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“The pattern shafts installed in the loom castle are the most complex system components in this particular loom type, but, unfortunately, there are only five pattern shafts left.”
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“No textiles were found on the looms; indeed, no silk textiles from this period have been discovered so far in this area of China.”
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“The four loom models were made mainly of wood and partly of bamboo, with cinnabardyed silk threads preserved on the beams.”
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“The discovery of these models of unique hook-shaft pattern looms sheds new light on the history of early technology and on the transmission of innovations in the second century BC.”
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“No 14 C dating has yet been undertaken.”
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“We believe that this shaft pattern loom was the basis for the invention of the draw loom, which was then introduced to the West (Persia, India and Europe), indicating that the Chinese silk pattern loom made a significant contribution to the subsequent development of world textile culture and weaving technology.”
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“Both of these examples, the Baoguang loom and the Fufeng loom, belong to the shaft pattern loom type.”
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“It also illustrates how Han Dynasty China exported not only spectacular qualities and patterns of silk to Central Asia and the Roman and late-Roman west, but also how weavers in this area of China used a different and more complex weaving technology than that documented anywhere else for the time.”
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“Their discovery points to an ancient Chinese origin for a technology that revolutionised silk production throughout the rest of Asia and Europe.”
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“the design of the machine influenced the invention of later looms and the spread of technology throughout Eurasia and Europe”
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“All the jin silks from this period, including those from these loom models, were probably made using a similar technique (warp silk yarn was dyed before being woven) and weave structure: warp-faced compound tabby”
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“All these excavated jin silks used the same weave structure: warp-faced compound tabby, a particular, traditional weave structure originating from ancient China.”
§ The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China > Han Dynasty jin silk
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Zhao 1999
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In the paper
“The four newly discovered loom models excavated in Laoguanshan finally provide an unequivocal answer to this question, revealing it to have been a loom of the multi-shaft type.”
§ The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China > Research
boostedstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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It may state two separate claims as one.
What the paper did — it cites no source for this, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“Although all four models collapsed after removal from the burial, all of the constituent elements were preserved and the looms could be reconstructed.”
§ The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China > Research
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“In the early Han Dynasty, during the second century BC, the wife of Chen Baoguang wove patterned damask with 120 nie (metal sticks), which were probably pattern rods, suggesting the use of pattern shafts (Cheng & Cheng 1993).”
§ The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China > Research
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Cheng & Cheng 1993
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hedgedstates an associationSingle case- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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The paper relies on this without support.
Jin silk produced by this method was valuable and widely distributed.
“Jin silk, made using this method, was both valuable and widely distributed”
The paper relies on this without support.
The treadle-loom technology was unknown in the West until a millennium later.
“a technology that was not known in the West until a millennium later.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The multi-shaft system is known only from Chinese historical documents.
“The multi-shaft system is known solely from Chinese historical documents.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Chengdu had an official jin silk workshop during the Qin and Han Dynasties, between the second century BC and the second century AD.
“This city is known to have had an official jin silk workshop in the Qin and Han Dynasties from between the second century BC and the second century AD.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Han Dynasty Shu jin silks are frequently found along the Silk Road and were traded across Eurasia.
“which are frequently found along the Silk Road, and were traded across Eurasia.”
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China > The Laoguanshan discovery
“consists of five compartments, one large component on the top and four smaller ones below.”
§ The earliest evidence of pattern looms: Han Dynasty tomb models from Chengdu, China > Conclusion
“Figure 2. A reconstruction of the tomb chamber showing the four compartments (a single larger compartment above and three smaller ones below)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhao, F., Wang, Y., Luo, Q., Long, B., Zhang, B., Xia, Y., Xie, T., Wu, S., & Xiao, L.
- Affiliations
- Donghua University (CN)
- State Administration of Cultural Heritage (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Zhijiang College of Zhejiang University of Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Zhao, Feng
- ORCID
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Antiquity Publications
- Published
- 2017-04
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 356
- Pages
- 360-374
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W2605016432
- Cited by
- 57
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 40.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Antiquity (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Donghua University
- Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
- State Administration of Cultural Heritage
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Historical and Literary Studies
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Keywords
- Han dynasty, textile industry, ancient Chinese technology, Chengdu
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