Hello everyone,
I have been revisiting this conundrum time and time again over the last couple of years and have always admitted defeat. I want to increase my counterbalanced loom from 4 to 8 shafts and this is a completely off the wall notion that came to me today.
My loom is 5 feet deep with the 4 shafts and their lamms sliding up and down guide grooves and I have 4 more shafts given to me some years ago. I don't want to convert this lovely old loom to countermarch so what if I mount these spare shafts behind the counterbalance mechanism, in a separate parallel countermarch sort of way, with the only connection to the original shafts being their tie up to the treadles. I shall have to add 4 more treadles too, won't I?
I am hoping that you will be able to tell me if this could possibly work or is just a completely bonkers ideas!
Thank you,
Kath in Worcestershire, England