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LOOM sa BACKSTRAP LOOM sa INKLE LOOM sa LOOM HEDDLE & REED sa LOOM OPERATION sa LOOM WARPING & TIE-UP sa SPOOL KNITTING xx WEAVING xx WEAVING EQUIPMENT How to build a simple portable loom from a carton, shoe box, or cereal box. Box lid serves as the loom and supplies can be stored inside. Weaving. Part 3. A survey of the kinds of looms you can buy. Covers inkle, card weaving, backstrap weaving, rigid heddle frame loom, tapestry loom, and four harness loom. Wedged half-lap joint is designed to replace the tusk-tenon joint traditionally used in loom construction. How to construct a frame loom. The hands that make your looms, an overview of loom manufacturers, profiles of some specific ones and a directory Do-it-yourself maintenance for looms and tips on what to look for when buying a used loom. A look at old looms, their advantages and disadvantages. Built floor stops for the front legs of a loom. Keeps the loom from "walking" forward. A look at Colonial tape looms and samples of tapes that can be woven. Equipment for production efficiency: the loom. Tips on loom selection for a professional weaver. Add-on treadles for the "Baby Wolf" loom. An explanation of how counterbalanced looms operate and how they compare with jack and countermarch looms. Tip on keeping shafts level in a counterbalanced tie-up. Tip: Rubber bands placed on tabby treadles make it easier for feet to identify them. Weaving ideas to use with young children. (1) Tube weaving on a cardboard loom. (2) Trivet woven on a circle of cardboard. (3) Rigid heddle loom made from popsicle sticks. (4) Weaving with drinking straws. (5) Solar dyeing using Kool-aid. (6) Slentra braids. Selecting and caring for reeds. Includes a reed substitution chart. Tip for making a device to keep a loom from sliding on a hardwood floor. Tip suggests putting Rip-Grip (used on skateboards) on loom treadles to improve the grip when weaving barefooted. Computer-assisted loom hardware. A comparison of four loom systems. Tip describes how to make a treadle minder that signals which treadle is depressed. How to make a temple to keep fabric on a loom stretched to the correct width. Thread catcher, woven in plain weave, attaches to the front of the loom with velcro and is held open at the top with lightweight boning. Choosing a treadle loom. A comparison of the major features of floor looms and the advantages of each. Tip shows a loom device for raising floating selvedges. How to use a temple during weaving to help keep the cloth a uniform width. Tip shows how to weight a loom beater without permanent modification. Tip shows simple stretching device for keeping selvedges straight when weaving. Tip suggests mounting a rearview bicycle mirror to make sure a shed is clear when weaving double weave, rep or with a sticky warp. A small rigid heddle loom to make to weave tapes and bands. In use, it is clamped to a table top. Includes instructions for warping and weaving a narrow three-color band. Tip on using mushroom-shaped knobs on selected treadles to help feet select the right treadles. Tip tells how to use a clawed bandage holder on each end of a length of elastic to serve as a temple on a small loom. Moving from a loom with four or eight shafts to a loom with 16 or 24 shafts. Advice on how to explore the new options and put patterns together. The nomadic loom. How to construct a 2-harness, modified counterbalanced floor loom from tree saplings. Choosing a floor loom. Sinking shed and rising shed loom systems are compared. Weave with a hand-built frame loom. Details how to build the loom, warp it and weave a mat in plain weave. An introduction to belt weaving. Includes instructions for making a simple rigid heddle loom from 12 Popsicle sticks. Build a table top frame loom. Use it to weave pieces up to 20" wide. Warp it either as a tapestry loom or a regular warp. Est. cost: $10. A basic comparison of counterbalance and countermarch looms and their pulley systems. Fly-shuttle device and draw devices for pattern weaving are described. Shaft switching on a jack loom. Adapting the development by Peter Collingwood to a 4-harness jack (rising shed) loom. Describes fabricating the shaft switching mechanism, threading, and plotting geometric designs. Draw frame apparatus that can be built to supplement any rising shed loom with a boxed castle. How to make and warp a Navajo frame loom, warping on the loom instead of separate rods. The Dobby Loom explained. The Macroweave Effect. Using bars or rods as weft elements in lieu of yarn to create wall hangings and window blinds that are three-dimensional. Includes instructions for making a crossbar loom. Twenty-harness madness. Description of how a Le Clerc "Dorothy" loom was expanded to 20 harnesses and used to reproduce an 1847 double-weave coverlet. Treadling, tieup and profile of coverlet included. Construct a simple shaft-switching device. Weft-twined weaving. Building the loom. Instructions for a purse to weave. Increasing the reeds efficiency on the loom. How to make a removable "sectional beam" from canvas, twine and roofing nails. The nails serve as the pegs. The canvas ties around the plain beam when a sectional beam is needed. A simple selvage system. Add a supplementary jack to a loom to activate the selvages automatically when weaving with two shuttles. An overview of portable floor and table looms and how to determine which one fits your needs. Alternative or "specialty" looms summarized. Describes triangular, inkle, rigid heddle, bead, card-weaving, backstrap, Navajo and upright tapestry looms. Regular maintenance and adjustments for looms summarized. Weave-It looms. A description of how to warp them and weave small squares. How to construct two shaft-switching devices for a countermarch or counter-balanced loom. Introduction and designing techniques on the Masterweave loom. The use of the Dobby loom for multi-harness weave manipulation. Shaft-switching on rising shed looms using weighted floating heddles. Includes instructions for building a shaft-switching rack. A shed regulator for counterbalance looms. How to build one based on the LeClerc design so weaves in which three shafts are lifted against one shaft can be woven more easily. A look at loom shed length and methods for controlling it. Annual maintenance routine for a loom outlined. Loom making. A general look at some of the terminology and details involved in the construction of a 4 harness, counterbalance floor loom with underslung beater bar. Four harness jack loom. Part 1. Four harness jack loom. Part 2. | |||||||||
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