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Looms for sale12/19/2023 All Leclerc weaving looms are made from premium quality Canadian Maple wood. Leclerc offers the widest range of weaving looms & accessories manufactured in North America. The weaving width of the Baby Wolf Loom is 66cm (26″) and it comes with 4-shaft or 8-shaft options, as well as a 4 Now-4 Later model that allows the weaver to upgrade from 4 shafts to 8 shafts at any time. It is one of the best small-sized floor looms available in the market today. Even though it's small in size and has the advantage of portability, it comes with big functionalities, similar to larger looms. The Baby Wolf is a great combination of compact sizing and functionality. One of the best floor looms Schacht has to offer for weavers who love functionality and portability rolled into one is the Baby Wolf. Schacht is known for their high-quality weaving looms and for over 50 years, they have strived to fulfill their vision to support weavers and spinners around the world through products, services, and education. Some of the dobby models can have up to 40 shafts. Floor looms generally start with a minimum of 4 weaving shafts and increase up to 12 shafts. Generally weaving on a floor loom is faster as the shafts are operated by the weaver's feet, freeing up the arms to concentrate on throwing the shuttle. Spring and Delta have a parallel countermarch system for harness action and a moving breast beam to control the tension of the warp, which makes them easy to use. WOOD". Does anyone have any suggestions about finding information about him and his manufacturing process? I would dearly like to know why the loom was constructed in this manner or if he was just having a bad day.The David is a popular small floor loom that looks modest but surpasses many large floor looms in functional quality. Stamped on the top beam of my loom is "By F.C. The only problem is that my Dorset continues to baffle weavers at workshops if they notice that the 2 & 3 treadles are lifting 3 & 2 heddles.If Maribeth's loom is constructed the same as mine, and she can turn that section of wood 90 degrees, by untying the cords, she should have a "normal" Dorset. So, I tried switching the threadings for heddles 2 and 3 and it works! The loom can be used as if it is a 1,1/2,2/3,3/4,4 tie up. No one had ever had experience with this predicament. I asked several experienced weavers in my guild about the problem and just got blank looks and head shaking. My husband untied the cords from the treadles, removed the section of wood with the pulleys that the cords go through and turned it 90 degrees which,from left to right, lined up treadle 1 with heddle 1 and treadle 4 with heddle 4. That left treadle 2 lined up with heddle 3 and treadle 3 lined up with heddle 2. So, mine lined up left to right, 4,2,3,1. So did mine with the exception that 3 and 2 were also switched. On 1/27/13, Maribeth wrote that her Dorset's treadles line up, left to right, 4,3,2,1. So, just in case it was not, here goes again:Ībout 10 years ago I purchased my Dorset ($400), unaware that it had an odd quirk. There has been some confusion on my part as to whether or not my email was sent. Submitted by Elk Ridge Orch… (not verified) on Fri, - 03:24 I look forward to learning to weave and reading and learning online here. I have a 'local' (over an hour away) weaving guild I am a member of and they are generous and knowledgable. Tips, techniques, resources, etc., will be things I am after and will likely google first and ask once I need some final advice instead of blasting you fire-hose-style with broad questions! I do know that I will need to borrow a warping board and a sleying tool, at minimum, to start from scratch once I finish playing on the existing warp. So, after arriving home last night with the loom, I did a google search before bed and found you all. And doubly-fortunately, it is already warped with others' learning on it (it was used as a demonstration loom for years) so I can play and not put this off until I research, plan, purchase and generally overthink the whole thing! Which I love to do as well but that tends to make new hobbies take a loooong time to root. The mechanics of it all just makes sense. I read Learning to Weave a few years ago, which this same friend sent to me, and I was pleasantly surprised how much I remembered. She showed me the loom, knowing I had some interest in learning to weave. Near the end of out time together, she invited me to see a loom she had and that she needed to find a new home for to make room in a shared workspace. Greetings! I came home with a Dorset loom yesterday!! While spending a week in our previous hometown (now 5 hours of driving time away), I visited a longtime fiber-friend.
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