Starting to make looms, need help


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Posted by Kevin West on Monday, 14 April 2008, at 6:49 p.m.:

I am planning on making a 4 treadle, 4 shuttle portable floor loom. My step father made them in Larkspur in the 50’s and 60’s then moved to Chicago Park, California, (outside of Grass Valley) and continued making them there. The publisher of The Last Whole Earth Catalog listed him in there catalog and he then got orders from around the country. When he moved to Hayden Lake Id he still made some but without the benefit of the Whole Earth Catalog.

I have one of his looms and am in the process of getting it ready to weave a rag rug. Then I will start to make another loom. I used to help him make the looms and heddles. We did not weave much except a few rugs so I do not have any experience in weaving.

Any help or indigestions will be welcome. A source of Grants would also be helpful, if not necessary to get some made at this point.



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