Although its particular form has varied through the ages and by locality, its essential parts remained the same. The loom consists of two vertical uprights, a horizontal warp beam, a shed rod, a ...

Photo from the South Jutland Archaeological Museum Buried in one of the workshops were several 1,500-year-old loom weights, weaving tools used to keep the thread tight on a vertical loom ...

The most important of these are loom weights used to stretch the warp threads of the hanging vertical loom. These weights were made of stone or clay and are left in the archaeological record.