JUMA (KUBA)

Sewing machine made by hand which was used for producing fabrics and sheets. 1940s.

It components are the following:

  1.  DAPTHA (STEER): A front board with the fore front of JUMA. It used to limit the weaving threads side by side, through its beat on the weave patch.
  2.  GEBATHA (GEBAT): Threads wrapped around a straw. It controlled the ascending and descending movement.
  3.  ABZARA (COMB): A wooden comb which is sandwiched between the two components of DAFA; through which a combination of prepared threads pass along.
  4.  VOLA: Long wooden squared board attached in the front of the knitter; it twisted the weave materials.
  5. TER: Long wooden wheel attached to a reel of threads to transform them into a ball of threads.
  6. DOLAB: A rotated cylindrical wheel use for winding up threads into a ball from.
  7.  FAKA: Small board attached at the top of a weave substance before wrapping it around the NOLA to maintain its stability.

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