Complex Weavers announces that their keynote speaker for the CW2008 Seminars "In the Eye of the Heddle" is internationally renowned weaver and author Peter Collingwood. CW08 will be held June

I have a longish design, meant to be woven with a thick (compared to the warp) fluffy weft. To keep the total weight down, I want to use several tabbies between each thick pick. Is there a trick that

Take it slow- You'll stop thinking in terms of tie ups as there are none in the classic sense; it's more like a 12 h direct tie up, one shaft per treadle, if you had 12 legs! When I draw a design on

Hi Everyone, Thanks to Bill and Elisa for their answers and comments to my post on dobby looms. This has been and still is a real learning curve dor me. Thanks again Judy

Tien wrote: The idea of using a 16-shaft table loom sort of boggles my mind, but I guess some people are OK with flipping all those levers for every pick...! For sampling I have a 16 shaft Mountain

The owner/builder states you can roll the drum with the side of your foot and press the pedal down with the same foot. What I'm curious about is how big a shed the loom has; he says the drum lifts the

There are two sets of temperature ratings for electrical components. Operating range and storage range. A typical specification looks like: Environmental specifications Operating temperature:-

For what it's worth: 16 shafts allows 65534 usable sheds (+ 2 useless ones) [displaying my obsession with mathematical trivia] I'm curious about drum dobbys. If there are 60 positions on the

My CompuDobby 2 unit did just fine on the trip from NJ to Zurich, and again from Zurich to Vancouver. The real problem on boats is the board flexion on longer boards - they are held in two rails

I've done computer networking in a sintered metal environment - computers work, or at least don't die, to over 100 degrees F. Cold is also not a problem, as in normal winter temps. I've ordered

I will be moving my 24H compudobby to Europe next month. I am concerned about how to protect the compudobby computer box from cold and heat while it is in storage either at the ports or while in the

I kept remembering an old article on the Underslung Dobby loom and finally found it in my loom notes (near the bottom, of course) from 1991, it's in Weaver's magazine, 1991, issue 15, pages 52 & 53.

Hi, You may want to contact AVL and ask them. They have been very helpful in answering my questions - both by phone and e-mail. Stephanie Stanley

In *Latvian Weaving Techniques* by Anita Apnis-Herman, p. 53, there's an 8 shaft version. 2 rows straight draw--1-8; advancing twill, 1,2,3,4,2,3,4,5 . . .to 7,8,1,2,3,2,1,8,7 and mirror from the

tend to warp beam, tension across I call it "Beam Torque", it's rarely ever mentioned and very few loom makers take notice of this phenomenon, preferring instead to put both cranks or levers on the

Thanks for that Amy, interesting to see. I will have to work on something completely different for the Klik though, it is a totally different mechanism. See the picture

Hi, I recently acquired an older AVL 16H mechanical dobby production loom. The former owner used it a lot, so some of the parts need to be replaced. I would greatly appreciate advice from someone

Hello from up in the mountains of NE AL/NW GA...a quick hop and you can straddle two states. But, you might fall off the road!!! (-; It gets pretty steep around here. I was wondering where one can

HI- I have an older AVL FDL and I have two warp beams on the back of the loom. The lower beam has the handle on the left and the upper beam has the handle on the right (as you sit at the front of the

Hi Rachel, The Purrington loom has exactly such a device. See: http://www.purringtonlooms.com/16h.htm Do you see the metal piece that goes across (currently behind the wooden holders) and then