What is a spring loom?
The Louet Spring II loom is one of the most innovative cleverly designed floor looms on the market today. The breast beam is attached to the loom in such a way that it is free to move toward the harnesses when the shed is made and then back toward the weaver when the shed is closed again.
What is harness in loom?
Shaft/Harness: The shaft or harness is the frame of the loom that holds the warp threads. These shafts can be moved up or down by “treadles” to allow the weft to cross through and create the desired pattern. The warp is threaded through the eye of the heddle and there are as many heddles as there are warp threads.
What is the difference between a counterbalance and a Countermarch loom?
The difference between the two loom types is in the way this happens. On a counterbalance loom, the shafts are connected to each other via pulleys or jacks above the shafts. On a countermarch loom, every treadle is connected to a lamm below the shafts.
How do you tie a Countermarch loom?
For a countermarch tie-up, you must tie every shaft to move (otherwise you’ll have threads in the middle of the shed that go neither up nor down) and you can’t ask any shaft to go both up and down. You can tie two treadles so that one of them moves one group of shafts and the other moves the rest, however.
What is a tempo treadle?
TempoTreadle is a system designed to augment your traditional floor or table loom to make your weaving process more accurate and stress free. Unlike other treadle tracking software, there is nothing to touch to advance the pick; the TempoTreadle system knows whether you pressed the correct treadles.
What is a dobby weaving loom?
A dobby loom, or dobbie loom, is a type of floor loom that controls all the warp threads using a device called a dobby. The word dobby is a corruption of “draw boy,” which refers to the weaver’s helpers who used to control the warp thread by pulling on draw threads. A dobby loom is an alternative to a treadle loom.