Birthday Loom - New Here!

oooo congratulations! I have taken weaving at the local college for the past 3 semesters and love it. I personally want a 12 shaft loom, I love overshot.

Good luck on learning how to weave.

Sheena

Wow! What a great gift. Enjoy!

Higs, Katherine

Good luck on learning how to weave.

Sheena

--------------- Wow! What a great gift. Enjoy!

Higs, Katherine

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Thank you Katherine and Sheena for the kind words. :) It will take time, but I'll get it. :D I just have to remember that you can't weave if you don't warp first. LOL!

Sheena - Good luck on that 12 shaft loom! I'm sure you will get it. :) I haven't decided which type I really "want" yet, as this one just sort of fell into my lap. Everyone has to start somewhere though, so guess I'll just take my time and learn on this old "Bessie". LOL!

--Tay

Wow! What an amazing gift!

There may be a weaving group online somewhere also. Check with the various online suppliers of weaving yarns - Webs, The Mannings, etc - they may have some advice too. I know there are lots of books, so the library will also be a good place to look.

A 4-shaft loom is good for making just about anything. It's all in how you thread it. As I understand it, if you do it right, 90% of the design work is in the threading, then you just have to weave it. (Of course I've never actually done it...)

Eep! Maybe the 17 year old will take an interest and help with the threading? Or at least keep the 19 month old busy while you wind the warp. Good luck with it all!

=Tamar

I wouldn't go so far as to say 90%. You still have treadling sequence and tie up to think about. A very good book is Learning to Weave ISBN #:1-883010-03-9. Another good book is called Four Harness Weaving (I think) I will have the ISBN # on tuesday, the next time I go to class. This book shows threading and then several possiblities that can come from the threading by altering the tie up and treadling.

ps. if you have questions about the terms I use just ask.

Hello Tay just saw this and as I weave on the same loom, I thought maybe you may like to review this url

Also you may find a search around this site

I don't have a Glimåkra Loom, but I do know the company. In fact, I have skied past it and spent a wonderful time there visiting, hosted by the owner.

here is some trivia which doesn't help you weave but it may make you feel more personally connected to the source of your loom

it is located in Oxberg, sweden, about 30km from Mora, sweden, look here for weathercam showing at the finish line in Mora. today sunup at 8.46am, down at 2.57pm! as i write this, it is now after dark there. it is on the course of the vasaloppet, an annual cross-country ski race which commemorates the trek of gustav vasa in raising forces to find against the danes in 1520.

The company started as a business to make reeds and the gggrandfather or so of the current owner decided to expand and make looks. The current owner, a women, is about 8th generation to run the business

they do make everything there, including the reeds. a fantastic machine for the reeds which they designed. they also make a hand powered bobbin loader which wonderful for loading bobbins. we have one but it is in sweden for the DWs loom at at her country house. no hers is not glimråka but was hand made for her by someone in sÃ?rna, a village about 80km north of oxberg.

You never indicated what part of the us you are in. in the northern virginia area, near washington, there ae several sources of training for floor looms åand also rigid heddle looms?

in connecticut, i can give you a referral also who if she isn't close enough, might make others for you.

enjoy! i wish the had the floor space for a floor loom (but in 800 sq ft, there isn't even space for a sm table much less sm and serger on tables). and our three rigid heddle looms take up enough trying to find a wall on which to lean them.

to AB Gunnar Anderssons VÃ?vskedsfabrik. On these pages you will find looms and weaving equipment of our own production. By being the producer of the whole production chain and selling almost all equipment for weaving, we possess a unique feeling for completness for our products. From January 1999 the Glimåkra weaving program is manufactured in Oxberg. We intend to keep the identity of Glimåkra looms, besides the continuous development which is going on concerning working methods and shaping.

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You are all wonderful, and SO sweet for all the advice! I don't actually own a Glim=E5kra Loom though. According to the previous owner, she bought it at an auction and believes it to be a handmade loom. I have created a little page with pictures of it if you want to take a peek. ;)

--Tay

hi there Tay, I was going on the fact that you had a counterbalance loom you needed to have put up, and this site shows how to put one up, regardless of the make (glimarik) whether CounterBalance or Countermarche' you'll find the way to tie up your loom on the site.

hope you manage to do this ok, if not shout, as mine is counterbalance and I'll help where I can, mine is also hand made lol

Keep the site in mind, once you've got the upright supports up for the loom, and the rollers in, you will find everything else will slot into place, and you should have wooden pegs that go through holes on the uprights to hold the beams and supports together, once it is all assembled you'll need to get a wooden mallet and knock all these pegs in tightly, then will come the tie-ing up of the harnesses and treadles where the pics on the site should help you.

higz Cher

--Tay