id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-16558	Wu, Gang	How Did Byzantines Weave? A Synthesis of Textual, Pictorial, Ethnographic, and Archaeological Evidence	2021	28	.pdf	application/pdf	8930	394	59	Since no specification is provided by the context, we may assume that he was describing a general feature of Byzantine weaving. A Homeric pin beater was generally stick-like or pointed at one end or both, although this could have varied depending on the specific task to be performed.18 From Psellos and Tzetzes’ texts we do not clearly know the functions of the pin beater, but it appears that this accessory tool of the Homeric warp-weighted loom had persisted into Byzantine weaving.	cache/grbs-16558.pdf	txt/grbs-16558.txt