This weaver in coastal Ecuador uses a bamboo slat to help maintain an even width for her weaving. Her tenter stick is a bamboo slat made by breaking open a tube of giant bamboo. Weavers wi have a collection of thee sticks for the various widths that they usually weave. The ends are whittled down to points wich pierce the edge of the weaving. I wove on this piece and it took a lot of effort on my part to put the tenter stick into place as the weaving progressed. These are the weavers I sent ime with on a research trip with anthropologist Kathleen Klumpp in 2007.
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