{"id":35,"date":"2012-10-16T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:22:00","slug":"update-on-loom-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Update on Loom Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite awhile ago, in fact nearly three years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/authentic-knitting-board.html\" target=\"_blank\">I posted what I thought was an impressive list<\/a> of all the little weaving and knitting looms I had accumulated up to that time. It was just about then I started becoming interested in weaving, and I was making a pretty clear switch from knitting to weaving. I still do an occasional knitting project, but most of my time is spent in weaving world. So, maybe it&#39;s time for an updated list? I think it&#39;s interesting that all of the looms from my old list could have probably been stored in one medium-sized plastic bin, but I still thought it was excessive.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Then:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Knifty Knitter round loom set (four looms)<\/li>\n<li>The Knifty Knitter flower loom and spool knitter (two looms)<\/li>\n<li>The purple Knifty Knitter rectangle loom<\/li>\n<li>Five 4&quot; Square Looms: Two 4&quot; Weave-its, One 4&quot; Simplex loom, One 4&quot; Hazel Rose Multiloom, One 4&quot; Wonder Weave<\/li>\n<li>One Weave-it Rug loom<\/li>\n<li>One Regular Gauge hat loom<\/li>\n<li>One 24&quot; Homestead Hideaway triangle loom<\/li>\n<li>Two potholder looms<\/li>\n<li>One extra fine gauge DecorAccents oval sock loom<\/li>\n<li>Three small flower looms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Now&#8230;<\/strong><\/em> (I&#39;ve kept every one of those, plus added a few.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glimakra Emilia rigid heddle loom 18&quot; (with stand, extra heddles, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Erica 25&quot; rigid heddle loom<\/li>\n<li>Kessenich 14&quot; two harness table loom<\/li>\n<li>Peacock 12&quot; two harness table loom<\/li>\n<li>Louet W30 12&quot; eight harness table loom<\/li>\n<li>Ashford 16&quot; four harness table loom<\/li>\n<li>Soon-to-arrive 7&#39; modular triloom<\/li>\n<li>Schacht inkle loom<\/li>\n<li>A teeny tiny wooden rigid heddle loom called a Samuel Gabriel loom<\/li>\n<li>Two more Weave-Its. (Why stop? They jump into my hands at antique stores.)<\/li>\n<li>Two Authentic Knitting Boards (10&quot; and 28&quot;) plus the extenders for weaving<\/li>\n<li>Another Wonder Weave ($5! I bet you couldn&#39;t resist, either.)<\/li>\n<li>A 1940&#39;s blue plastic EZEE Knitter fine gauge loom<\/li>\n<li>A homemade wooden knitting rake<\/li>\n<li>A homemade round hat knitting loom<\/li>\n<li>A couple more daisy wheel flower looms<\/li>\n<li>A backstrap loom, made by me (For the record, this is the only loom I actually made that works, and yes, it&#39;s essentially four sticks and some yarn.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, we&#39;ve gone way past the medium plastic bin storage idea!<\/p>\n<p>For some reason&#8211;and not just because I&#39;m running out of room in my tiny 8&#39;x9&#39; office&#8211;with the recent purchase of the 7&#39; triloom, I feel I&#39;ve actually come full circle. The first looms I had an interest in were the 4&quot; square looms and the little Wonder Weave rigid heddle loom. I then bought my first triloom. Little did I know that those simple looms would teach me the basics of weaving. From there, I let things slide, weaving-wise, until the next fall, about a year later, when I suddenly had an urge to buy a &quot;real&quot; loom. But first, with my inquisitive nature and with some helpful words from a Ravelry weaver, along with Laverne&#39;s fantastic series on backstrap weaving at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weavezine.com\/content\/backstrap-basics\" target=\"_blank\">Weavezine<\/a>, I put together a backstrap loom (and chiseled my hand in the process!), and figured out lifting patterns for plain weave, weft-faced projects. It was about five months later that I bought the Emilia loom.<\/p>\n<p>My looms, every one, are still portable and small enough to fold up and store on a shelf or under the desk. So, my little saying on the top of my blog, &quot;weaving and knitting on small looms,&quot; still holds water. (Do I sound a little defiant?) And yet, I think I really started weaving because I wanted to follow the fibers visually and figure out how structure was created. If you&#39;ve ever seen a triloom, you&#39;ll know the weaver walks the yarn from side to side, hooking it onto opposing nails and weaving over and under the horizontal threads that are created in the process. It&#39;s called continuous weave, where the warp and weft are woven at the same time. It&#39;s not fine weaving with silken threads, but it suits me. (And if I want to use silken threads, well, I just fire up the little Louet W30!!)<\/p>\n<p>With all that said, I have two looms in the mix that will probably need new homes, the <a href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/table-loom-o-rama.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peacock and the Kessenich<\/a>. Both also need some work, but I&#39;ll post more about that in the future if I decide to wave goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite awhile ago, in fact nearly three years ago, I posted what I thought was an impressive list of all the little weaving and knitting looms I had accumulated up to that time. 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