structo looms

Hi Nick, what is a structo loom please?? I use a large floor loom countermarche and have two harris tabletop 4shafts one 22ins the other

cheers....Cher

My name is not Nick...those are my initials. Structo Artcraft Looms were manufactured and sold for light years by Dick Blick art supplies, then they suddenly and without any good reason (as far as I can see) pulled the plug on them. They are sturdy little metal table looms with 4 harnesses and about a 10-inch weaving width. they were also a lot less expensive than Leclerc and others of that ilk, so were affordable by schools. They were a mainstay at F.I.T. when I studied woven design there in the '80's. I guess they still use them in the first-year courses. They were also used in a lot of industry studios for sample weaving. Needless to say, they are now worth their weight in gold, since pro weavers still think highly of them. They are invaluable when you want to see how a weave will look, test out colour changes and yarns without having to thread up your floor loom and have it literally "tied up" and unavailable until you finish your sampling.

Hi Thanx for the explanation, I don't know your name so I naturally thought that Nick was it.....lol

Well I shall have to do a search for these to see a pic of them somewhere.

Thanx again......Cher

Thnx for the url, I've googled up a few, they look really interesting.

Well we used to have a Nick on here thought this was who I was \returning to, as you don't sign your messages, I thought Nick was your name...I see I'm not the only one to have thought the same thing...lol

cheers......Cher