Sarah asked about huck lace for a painted warp, with a heavy warp and finer weft. Anne is right, you will make cloth no matter which sizes of yarn are used. Now consider what kind of cloth you are wan

The working Silk Museum in Braintree is no longer in Braintree. We tried to visit it in May and it had just moved and was not yet open to the public. It moved further north east by about 30 miles but

Does anyone on the list know if plans exist to build a computer dobby? Any help would be appreciated. Philip Costa

Does anyone on the list know if plans exist to build a computer dobby? Any help would be appreciated. Philip Costa

Does anyone on the list know if plans exist to build a computer dobby? Any help would be appreciated. Philip Costa

Does anyone on the list know if plans exist to build a computer dobby? Any help would be appreciated. Philip Costa

If you have a wood-to-wood situation that needs to slide & that you can't get to easily w/ wax or parafin, you might try baby powder. This was a hint we got at AVL in the workshop on maintaining your

To solve the problem of the slipping brake -- AVL suggests that one lightly take a sheet of sandpaper to the portion of the drum upon which the cord rests, thereby scuffing the finish (removing accomu

Holly, et al, No matter what we think of cotton cord as a soft, it is abrasive and in fact a very fine polishing tool. The braided surface of the cord actually polishes the wood and in turn the cord p

Maybe someone can help. I have a small collection of partially used spools (or are they considered cones?) of cotton rug warp that I want to use for some rag rugs. I'm trying to figure out approximate

Cyrefco Looms makes a double action dobby called the CompuMarche which can be retrofitted into ...guess what... counter marche looms of the Scandinavian kind and Woolhouse looms. The action is a true

I just had to tell all of you I've been having an unbelievable time with my computer; crash, die, format etc. I finally broke down and got a new one but wanted to run my loom with the old computer. Be

Hi again everyone. On Friday my son, Darik, and I assembled my 60" 4-shaft (Glimakra?) loom again -- it's the one I've written to the list about before, and has been in storage for about 6 years. I bo

A more permanent fix is to locate some thin Teflon sheet plastic. I found it at a plastics supplier and cut a piece for each end of a clothbeam; the beam had a wooden axle in a wooden socket. I secure

1. For a low profile rug loom, I'm presently borrowing a Walling Cam-Action loom from N. Hollywood, CA. It's apparently fairly old. In spite of having only 4S and a 36" width, it's a wonderful loom to

What about the Teflon tape sold in the plumbing dept, for wrapping pipe threads? It's thin and somewhat self-adhesive, as I recall from the last time I was working on the plumbing... Bonni in NH Weevi

I think we had these warp and weft 'ondule' reeds pretty well-covered in a discussion back in July. So it should be in the archive. We also dealt with other ways of achieving undulating weft by varyin

Hi Sigrid: This is fabric made by that special reed we were talking of a month or more ago. The reed uprights do not go up and down at right angles to the length, but rather vary gradually change angl

Fiberworks PCW3.5 ( the older DOS) supports the Cyrefco loom. The Windows versions don't not work. Huge shed and level too. Ingrid Boesel, the weaving half of Fiberworks PCW Visit us at: http://www.fi

Perhaps you can help? I have a question re this French word: ONDULI. I understand the structure for this is plain weave, undulating using a special reed. I am wondering... what is this special reed? S