Frame Up!

My new loom is now partially assembled and sitting next to my Baby Wolf loom in my studio. What a great start to the New Year!


I'm thrilled with the way the finish looks now. The wood is slightly darker than the light wood of my Schacht loom, but this loom is at least 25 years older, so the wood has had more time to darken.

After several weeks of effort, this morning we finally had all the pieces of the loom frame sanded, oiled, and ready for use.



It took the two of us only a few minutes to assemble the frame of the loom. Fortunately, the loom came with an instruction booklet. Also, there are numbers stamped into key pieces of the frame to help show which pieces fit together.


At this point, it's light enough that we can easily pick it up and move it around to experiment with how to position it.


Of course, being a two-engineer household, we had done a graph paper template before buying the loom.

Somehow with graph paper it's hard to predict how the light would look in the room or how much of the windows the loom would block.


We ended up putting the loom in a different spot than I expected, but this position makes the loom fit into the room better than the other possibilities.


I'm looking forward to attaching the moving parts to the loom so that I'll be able to weave on it soon!