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A Day in the Life of Looms

Meg, over at Unraveling, has a tradition I just found out about, and I love it so am joining. She encourages people around the world to show what’s on their looms on New Year’s Day. I decided to go from my largest loom to the smallest.

First is my naked 8H Macomber, a jack loom. […]

Handwoven Baby Blankets, part 3

I promised to show you the four handwoven baby blankets when I finally had the binding on them.

The pink hearts have a pale pink binding, the blue hearts a pale blue binding, and the cranberry & aqua have white binding. I did get these up on my website, as this is the […]

Learning in 2011

my counterbalance loom

To get me started weaving, I took a series of 6 classes from a wonderful teacher in his 80s at the McKean County Museum in Smethport, PA. I haven’t taken a class since; all my learning has been on my own, gleaning what I can from blogs, books, and online weaving […]

Macomber Threading Made Easier

Back in mid-August when I used the 8 harness Macomber loom to weave some cashmere silk scarves in a diamond huck lace pattern, I spent LOTS of extra time on threading those heddles because I made LOTS of threading errors. I’m so used to threading my beautiful 4 harness loom with Texsolv heddles that I […]

Macomber At Rest

I told you about getting my vintage Macomber 8 harness loom in pieces a few months ago, gave you a few stories about its assembly, and showed you some table linens I’d made on it. But I never showed you the loom in all its finished glory. The Macomber is resting now. It has been […]