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====== Information and Plans for fabric loom. ======


Good god, I just found this site: https://helloloom.com/  they want $25 for an unbelievably basic loom that is completely useless.

{{ :fiber:understanding_countermarche_looms.pdf |Understanding Countermarche Looms PDF}} -- The Woolgatherers

I've built, or at least started to build, a countermarche loom model.  Made from laser cut 3mm basswood sheets.  

Currently having trouble figuring out how to make heddles, and the reed might be a problem but I think I figured out how to build a frame and wrap some transformer wire (20 or 28 awg) around it to make one.  I figure an 8 dent, possibly a 12 dent, depending on how easy it is to make the 8.  It's just a model / toy, but I want it to actually work.  It's also a fun learning project.

The combination of standard and metric parts is boiling my brains, but it's a real world problem.

I guess I really should just use metric for the whole thing, but I think better in inches after working 20 years in that paper factory using inch every day all day.


Dot's countermarch universal tie-up: http://fibre2fabric.blogspot.com/2008/07/universal-tie-up-for-countermarch-loom.html