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.