I just bought this loom at an auction.  The loom belonged to a an 80 year old woman whos mother owned the loom, so I suspect it's over 100 years old.  The canvas on the warping beam is rotten, otherwise it's in beautiful condition.  Has anyone ever seen a loom like this?.  There is no makers mark or manufactures label.  Also, would anyone know how I could replace the canvas.  I suspect I'll need to put a different warping beam on it because I see no way to attache a new canvas to the beam.  I have no idea where to start or how to do it.  This is the aution picture of the loom so it's kind of taken apart.  It's just the prettiest thing!  The only info I could get  about the loom is that it came from North Carolina where the women who origianlly owned it lived.

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Sun, 12/08/2013 - 04:05

Cadenza

What a beautiful and amazing find! I can't see the details of your image very well on my tablet so I don't know if what I did will work or not. 

 

My loom is completely different, and nowhere near that old!  but the canvas that was on it when I got it was rotten.  I purchased new duck cloth and sewed it to match the original. The old canvas had been stapled on, so that's what I did. I got a cheap tack stapler at Harbor Freight,  and tapped any staples that didn't go in all the way with a tack hammer. 

 

Sun, 12/08/2013 - 04:18

laurafry

I just replaced the apron on my AVL. Went to the fabric store, found cloth slightly narrower than the beam and some fusible interfacing. After fusing the interfacing to one end, I sewed the cloth back on itself to make a channel for the rod and cut 'tabs' I reinforced the edges of the tabs with fray check. I attached it to the beam and inserted the apron rod. The beam on my AVL is metal, but if yours is wood you can staple as above or use small upholstery tacks. Cheers Laura
Sun, 12/08/2013 - 15:14

Kristiek1

Thank you so much! I was so happy to find this site.  Oh Duh..the apron is stapled to the beam with little metal rings sewn into the canvas. I suspect they acted in place of a metal rod to fasten the warp on.  I am a rookie/nebwie weaver and have only successfully done a couple of projects on my table loom, so this loom is just a total contraption.  It had to be taken completely apart to get it in my house.  Putting it back together will be a challenge.  I also have an old old 4 harness Loomecraft that I had to move.  I took the back warping beam off and now I can't figure out how to get the break working.  Good grief, there are only two metal parts to it!  How hard can it be!.  It's making me want to cry.  I wish I could bundle all of you weavers up and put you around my kitchen table and pick your brains.  I'm due to retire next month and want to spend the rest of my life lost in my weaving.  It's something I've always dreamed about doing so this site will have to be the next best thing.  Looking forward to getting to know you all and thanx again.

 

Sun, 12/08/2013 - 16:42

Joanne Hall

It looks like you have a six shaft countermarch loom.  I see two sets of lamms and the top of the loom has the jacks to hold the shafts.

We have instructions on our website. If the link below does not get you there, go to the home page, click on Learning about Looms, then Basic Loom information.  The first file is 9 pages of basic information.  The third file is about the countermarch.

Joanne

glimakrausa.com
http://glimakrausa.com/learning-looms-weaving/intro-to-countermarch-and-counterbalance-looms/

 

Mon, 12/09/2013 - 10:04

paulz

One of the other good things about us weavers is that we get everywhere. And everywhere we get to we want to join up, see what others are doing and share. Not sure where you are but you might want to look out for a local guild. I'm quite a new weaver myself and I find everytime I go to guild I find out something I didn't know before. I usually go with a question which always gets answered but sometimes I get a question answered that I didn't even know I had.How good is that? Good luck and lok forward to hearing from you on this site for many years to come.