Posted by Linda Nelson on Friday, 17 March 2006, at 7:42 a.m.:
In Reply to: Help Identifying Loom Maker posted by Debbie Vanderborg on Sunday, 19 June 2005, at 12:01 p.m.:
Good morning,
I just found this note you posted several months ago and am wondering if you ever got any information about your loom.
I have a very similar loom but a 36 inch version and it has a label on it that says "Treatment Tested Loom, Bailey Manufacturing, Lodi, Ohio." Mine doesn't have a pulley attached to the beater but has a pulley system attached to the front frame that runs through the side frame to a heavy steel bar that hangs down in the back. I have no idea what it is for.
I found a site that had a little blurb about Treatment Tested Looms which said they were used for physical therapy and I found a Bailey Manufacturing in Lodi, Ohio that makes physical therapy equipment (although no longer makes looms, it seems) and I'm guessing it's the same company. I'm going to call them later and see if anyone knows anything about their old looms. The company began in 1956 and the label on my loom doesn't have a zip code on it so I'm figuring it was made somewhere between 1956 and 1963 when the use of zip codes started.
You probably have all this information already since it's been months since you posted your question but just in case here's the URL for Bailey Manufacturing Comapny. http://www.baileymfg.com/