My Goldilocks Loom
I just bought home a Macomber loom: serial # B5-4194. It was a crazy good deal. I can’t believe how good of a deal: $150 for a 40″ 10 shaft/ 16 treadle with a plain and a sectional warp beam. It’s covered in dust and some parts are a bit corroded. It needs a good
Tablet Weaving fun!
I saw a tablet weaving pattern on the interwebs that caught my fancy, and I’m stuck in bed with a stomach bug, so yesterday between naps I sat propped up in bed and made all the mistakes getting this little loom warped. I’m still figuring out exactly how I want to turn the cards, but
Getting Closer!
Getting closer to the yarn I need. This isn’t as consistent as I’d like, but it’ll do. Spindle is working better in terms of product, but it’s harder to manage my thumb issues. Practice!
Use it or Lose it
Use it or lose it. I haven’t really been spinning since I started weaving because time is finite. When I was last spinning I was focused on laceweight yarn that was stable but incredibly lofty, so was mostly working with woolen spun low twist (low twist for fine yarns- still twisty enough to be stable!)
Doubleweave! I’m doing it!
I’ve said so in several comments, but want to repeat in a post, I cannot recommend the Jennifer Moore Doubleweave book highly enough. I am not the sort who usually works through projects in a book workshop fashion; I tend to read about them, get the sense of it, and move forward in my own
Loom Restoration FAIL
EDIT: Decision made: based on input from folks familiar with the 1999 LeClerc computer dobby, I am not going to attempt to restore the dobby. If anyone could make use of the parts, let me know. I have restored enough old machines to know how hard it can be to keep them going! I hate
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