![]() Somehow it just feels right to look at things squarely on the first day of the year. But you can’t not see something when you stick it in a rectangle, click the shutter, and pass it around for others to see too. When I look at my looms I see cloth or lack of it. It’s hard to get a clear look at something you walk around daily, dust around weekly (Ha! Fat chance!), and the very nature of which is to be a means to an end. I was wondering why taking a few en deshabille photos of my looms and looking at other people’s looms in the same condition turned out to be such a refreshing exercise last year. Today I de-rusted my warping reel and planned my first warp for the Varpapuu. I do still plan on finishing making the Glimåkra heddle bars, just not right away. Plus, it has eight shafts instead of four. That is why I decided to get the Varpapuu. That is where I stalled out: my next step is making a jig to accomplish the precision drilling to add the hardware to the bars, and you know what? I don’t really like to fix looms. After a failure with warpy oak I scrounged the last straight pieces of some clear Douglas fir at a restoration millwork place and made the bars. ![]() It turned out to be surprisingly hard to find the right size of lumber for Pysslingen heddle bars, for so many reasons. The Glimåkra table loom of last year is still incomplete. I made three others in 2012, maybe I will blog about them some time. The standing inkle loom has another 20/1 linen band on it. Standing inkle and Pysslingen 4-shaft table looms: I can’t treadle this loom unless it does. Ah, craigslist! I bought it the day before yesterday, now all that’s left to do is to put the shafts back together and string ‘er up.Ībove right: Bergman 8-shaft countermarche.Īlso known as the moveable hat shelf, as you will notice it has moved from one side of the room to the other since last January. ![]() Those cute Finnish shuttles on the sewing machine table came with the loom as well. which is still recovering from it’s de-stinkifying ordeal by soap and water. They are drying on the sewing machine table out of the reach of the cat.Ībove center: Varpapuu Kothe Nordia 8-shaft table loom with cracked floor stand, circa 1970’s, 31.5 inch weaving width. I don’t really believe in washing heddles, but let me tell you, I had no choice. I counted, bundled and washed these loom-components yesterday because they stank the with stink of the former owner’s sprayable de-stinkifier. Once again, Meg hosts a New Year’s peek at a bunch of people’s looms! It’s a gift for a couple who loves Mata Ortiz pottery, and that’s all I really know about their taste the general idea is to end up with something that will complement the vivid earth tones and set off the high-contrast geometric patterning of the pots. I was nervous I would do something dumb like cut in the wrong place, but it worked out fine.įor the second half of the warp I wove some more samples, then started this little runner based on the information I’d gathered from my wet-finished rosepath twills. This was the first time I used the double stick header described by Peggy Osterkamp to reattach a warp-in-progress to the cloth beam. So far I have woven off (and cut off, and wet finished) a bunch of samples, mostly in the form of napkins. Nothing too light or precious.īack to the putty-brown 8/2 cotton mill ends then, with some unbleached-linen-colored stripes by the edges to keep it from boring me! I warped up about 6 yards and threaded for 8-shaft rosepath, 12 inches wide in the reed. My first warp on the Varpapuu table loom needed to be low-risk, since I had no clue how well the loom would weave, or whether the very small rust spots on the reed would transmit stain.
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