After dinner with friends, I got back home and played around a bit with the new loom. It came with a gorgeous silk-yak warp on it, shimmery gray with what looks like a beige tussah silk (?) stripe in one section. I picked a 24-shaft straight draw draft out of Handweaving.net - I normally prefer [...]
Read full post herePicked up the AVL workshop dobby loom and reassembled it last night - surprisingly easy. It’s definitely designed to be easy to take apart and put together, a nice feature in a “workshop” loom. And the central part with the computer-and-all is on rollers! What a great design.
The loom comes with a [...]
Went down to see the AVL 24-shaft, 24″ Workshop Dobby Loom today and liked it so much I bought it on the spot. It’s a beautifully engineered machine - elegant in design and very functional. I could rhapsodize on and on about all the interesting features, like the sandpaper beam, but I think I’ll wait [...]
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