Hello to y'all! I am hoping that someone can help me with my loom. First, a little background. :) I used to weave on an inkle loom (currently still at my mom's house in America) and have played around on couple friends table top looms and floor looms. I had the privelage of growing up in a nice fiber community and learned how to shear, spin, dye, a little weaving, knit and crochet. However, this was about ten years ago. I did play around with my inkle loom for a couple years but do to college and life never really spent that much time on it. Now I am the mom of two beautiful little kids with a small amount of time on my hands but a desperate desire to weave and spin again. I had my Mom send me, the last loom I bought recently, but I have no idea how to start from the ground up on this loom. In fact I don't really know anything about it except passing it in a goodwill store about 15 times, couldn't stop looking at it and finally broke down and bought it. :) I will try to get my husband ( a photographer) to take a nice pic, but for now maybe someone can give and idea where to start with this loom. The only marking I've found on it is on the reed and it says "The Whitaker Reed Co." with the number 8 on the other side of the reed.
I am really starting from the ground up again and would love to find out how to clean this old girl up. What should I use to clean the wood? Are there any books in particuliar that would help get my brain back in the game? The dimensions are from outer wood edge to edge length wise 16" inches. The inner dimension of the reed is 15 1/2 inches. Full width edge to edge is 18 1/2 inches.
TIA!!!
