"Watch how it works," Azuki told Princess Renko, demonstrating how the handloom operated. Her hands slowly shifted the shuttle carrying the weft threads from one side of the loom to the other. The weft ran between the long warp threads. Since they were separated by the heddles at the top of the loom, the weft thread ran over and under the warp. Then Azuki switched the heddles at the top to separate the long warp threads in the opposite direction, capturing the weft to build the ...