Loom repairs are getting caught up

I've been semi productive the past week or so with getting my looms usable again.

I lost the bracket to hold my tablet while using the floor size inkle loom, so I made a graph paper holder for it. I'm not sure if I am going to like using it yet, but might try some tonight or tomorrow.

That pattern is from a 10th century (Viking Era) find in Dublin, Ireland. the original piece was about 9mm wide and IRC the pattern came to about 6-7mm long. My attempts at it are not yielding the same width to length ratio, but that is what I'm striving for.


This past week I have been working on the beam gears for a PVC four shaft loom and I installed them yesterday while my internet was down and I couldn't work. I just need to install something for the a ratchet stop for the gears and I can start using it.

I'm going to try a 6" strap hinge, but expect to have to trim it to length.
I want to remake the gears with aluminum, but I might try to find pre-made gears that will fit and just purchase them; pre-made gears will all depend on the price.

Still getting the hang of regular posting, or maybe not..

I need to work on developing a habit of posting more often...

Over this past weekend I tried to get back to working on a four-shaft loom I made out of PVC pipe. I used Dave Holly's book "Building a 4-Shaft PVC Loom" with a few minor deviations, thus it not being completed in a couple of years... I think the book cost me $35 and all of the PVC pipe, a reed and Texsolv heddles ran me around $200 total. It sits behind me on the floor of my office, collecting dust and acting as a table for random stuff..

Over the weekend I worked on making gears for the rollers/beams. It went smoother than I expected, but I ran into the snag of my scroll saw and band saw both having dull blades. The scroll saw blades are on order from Amazon, but the band saw blade is more expensive and I can never remember the size I need to order..

I don't see the gears in my office right now, but I'll be taking pictures of every thing once I get it all assembled and can start doing regular style weaving.


In the mean time I plan to do reproductions of the Saint Cuthbert reliquary bands. I had done a variation on some of the patterns for an SCA project, but those were done with much larger thread and without the 3/1 twill behind the brocade.

I also lost the tablet PC bracket that I made for my big inkle loom, so I'm making a new bracket that will hold graph paper. Most people I see doing brocade and double face use graph paper, so I feel like I'm cheating using Guntram's tablet Weaving Thingy - which I HIGHLY recommend by the way!!!!

I'll try to get pics of the new bracket tonight and post them up.