Thank you for this posting about your remarkable loom. As a bandweaver on a traditional Scandinavian loom I find your pickup device using single-unit drawloom principles to be fascinating and full of potential. Your loom is making quite a splash right now among weavers with similar interests :-) There's a whole group of folks out there who would love to know more about your loom and how you came to build it. Is there any possibility of finding out more about your wonderfully-engineered machine?
The core of my loom is a two harness counterbalance loom which I chose because of the balanced shed. The draw levers are attached to individual texsolv heddles via cords. The weights (lingos) at the bottom of the loom return the heddles to the down position when the levers are released. The draw heddles are kept in their correct position using two plates with 33 holes that spaced 11 holes per inch. The frame of the loom is maple for rigidity. The plates are made of aluminum. My original draw levers were made of aluminum but I replaced them with plastic levers made on 3D printer. I am experimenting with 3d printing the plates as well. A woodworker with basic experience could make the frame of the loom. My hope is to get the draw lever and guide plate designs perfected so that they could be 3D printed by a hobbyist or printing service. The weights are available online (vavstuga). The custom reed was made by Gowdey Reed.
@@balticpsaltery Thank you very much for the additional info! Lots of food for thought, there, in your very generous description. You have hit upon an interesting convergence between band-weaving and drawlooms, which has a lot of weavers very interested/excited. Some of us have considered weaving pickup-bands on big drawlooms (this is done in some parts of the world, where several bands are woven at the same time thusly), but this is a complicated and cumbersome way to deal with a challenge you have solved very neatly. As it is, several of us are thinking hard about how to adapt your system to our band and counterbalance looms. If you ever do release the plans for the loom, you will have a ready audience of eager adopters. Clearly your business is the production of your beautiful instruments - but do you have a website where further enquiries could be sent in the event you do decide to make your band loom plans available?
The idea of adding a drawloom to an existing loom is not new. I think I have seen add-ons (vavstuga). I chose to design a single purpose drawloom because I was able to start without any compromises. The factors that I consider important are: ergonomics - The loom has to fit the person and all of the controls need to be easily reachable functional design - separate warp beams for background and pattern; even tension (weight and spring design); big treadles for big feet (me) usability - warping adds a minor step of including drawloom heddles; the draw levers require very little effort to operate; a single one-step pattern thread reset with no need to remember up or down positions. So working within these guidelines may make a conversion of an existing loom more of a challenge than starting from scratch.
Thank you for the compliment. I have contemplated building a small number but the cost in material and my time would make them prohibitively expensive. I am however planning to draft a set of plans for the few people out there with the skill and desire to make one for themselves. I would make it narrower so that it will go through doorways without partial disassembly. Making it foldable would be a plus for transportation and storage. I have several projects going concurrently so do not expect anything soon.
The reed is from Goudy Reeds in Rhode Island. The heddles came from the Woolery. The bearings came from Amazon. The miscellaneous hardware came from my local hardware store. I made the rest of the parts either with my mill and lathe or with my 3d printer. I am currently working on a drawloom attachment for existing looms. I have completed the design and am printing the plastic parts on my 3d printer. Assembly will be in the next month or so. I intend to install it on a 24 inch Montana table loom. I will modify the back beam and build a stand for it.
No, I did not. I designed it piece by piece iteratively until it was done. I modified the loom several times after the fact to correct and improve its function.
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That is so amazing! I’m just getting into weaving, and I’m bringing my daughters along with me. I can’t wait to show them your video.
This is so cool
Thank you for this posting about your remarkable loom. As a bandweaver on a traditional Scandinavian loom I find your pickup device using single-unit drawloom principles to be fascinating and full of potential.
Your loom is making quite a splash right now among weavers with similar interests :-) There's a whole group of folks out there who would love to know more about your loom and how you came to build it. Is there any possibility of finding out more about your wonderfully-engineered machine?
The core of my loom is a two harness counterbalance loom which I chose because of the balanced shed. The draw levers are attached to individual texsolv heddles via cords. The weights (lingos) at the bottom of the loom return the heddles to the down position when the levers are released. The draw heddles are kept in their correct position using two plates with 33 holes that spaced 11 holes per inch. The frame of the loom is maple for rigidity. The plates are made of aluminum. My original draw levers were made of aluminum but I replaced them with plastic levers made on 3D printer. I am experimenting with 3d printing the plates as well.
A woodworker with basic experience could make the frame of the loom. My hope is to get the draw lever and guide plate designs perfected so that they could be 3D printed by a hobbyist or printing service.
The weights are available online (vavstuga). The custom reed was made by Gowdey Reed.
@@balticpsaltery Thank you very much for the additional info! Lots of food for thought, there, in your very generous description. You have hit upon an interesting convergence between band-weaving and drawlooms, which has a lot of weavers very interested/excited. Some of us have considered weaving pickup-bands on big drawlooms (this is done in some parts of the world, where several bands are woven at the same time thusly), but this is a complicated and cumbersome way to deal with a challenge you have solved very neatly. As it is, several of us are thinking hard about how to adapt your system to our band and counterbalance looms.
If you ever do release the plans for the loom, you will have a ready audience of eager adopters. Clearly your business is the production of your beautiful instruments - but do you have a website where further enquiries could be sent in the event you do decide to make your band loom plans available?
The idea of adding a drawloom to an existing loom is not new. I think I have seen add-ons (vavstuga). I chose to design a single purpose drawloom because I was able to start without any compromises.
The factors that I consider important are:
ergonomics - The loom has to fit the person and all of the controls need to be easily reachable
functional design - separate warp beams for background and pattern; even tension (weight and spring design); big treadles for big feet (me)
usability - warping adds a minor step of including drawloom heddles; the draw levers require very little effort to operate; a single one-step pattern thread reset with no need to remember up or down positions.
So working within these guidelines may make a conversion of an existing loom more of a challenge than starting from scratch.
I love your loom. I wish you would sell them!
Thank you for the compliment. I have contemplated building a small number but the cost in material and my time would make them prohibitively expensive. I am however planning to draft a set of plans for the few people out there with the skill and desire to make one for themselves. I would make it narrower so that it will go through doorways without partial disassembly. Making it foldable would be a plus for transportation and storage. I have several projects going concurrently so do not expect anything soon.
Beautiful
Good job on your loom! I want to make a Drawloom my self and was wondering if you could share the links to where you got some of the parts?
The reed is from Goudy Reeds in Rhode Island. The heddles came from the Woolery. The bearings came from Amazon. The miscellaneous hardware came from my local hardware store. I made the rest of the parts either with my mill and lathe or with my 3d printer. I am currently working on a drawloom attachment for existing looms. I have completed the design and am printing the plastic parts on my 3d printer. Assembly will be in the next month or so. I intend to install it on a 24 inch Montana table loom. I will modify the back beam and build a stand for it.
Baltic Psaltery thanks! I will have my brother 3D print som things.
Hi! Do you have these looms for sale? Thanks!
looks good did you make a set of plans when you made it
No, I did not. I designed it piece by piece iteratively until it was done. I modified the loom several times after the fact to correct and improve its function.