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Other Equipment This rag shuttle was the first piece of weaving equipment I made using my new woodworking tools  Working with wood has become another passion.  Perhaps one of the things I love most about weaving is the beauty of the tools, and hope someday to be able to create them with skill. Part of a collection of shuttles and spools from commercial looms These "squirrel cages" were parts of a commercial jacquard loom owned by Curl Bros.  I have used them to make various equipment such as the marudai, pictured at the right.  Two of them will be used to make a squirrel cage wool winder. I found this umbrella swift at our local antique market.  The owner thought it was a sock dryer. Spacers are generally used with rigid heddle looms.  The flat spacer on the right came with the old Thacheray loom.  The others were found at lawn sales. I collect useful old household items and they often find their way into the fibre process. The washboard is used for felting, and the laundry tongs for gently lifting skeins and wool out of the dye pot.  Note the ceramic apple baker filled with felted buttons. Three indispensible finishing tools:  A fringe twister which I purchased at the ANWG conference in Victoria a couple of years ago, A heavy wooden crochet hook found by my sister in a charity shop in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and a strange little tool called a fast-knitter which my mother found in a drawer she had not upened sing the 1940's.  The last two items are used to create crochet bindings on handwovens.  I started using crocheted edges when I was a new weaver and had difficulty with selvages and have continued because I like the finished look it gives to blankets and clothing. Click Here for more equipment photos   page created with Webpage Designer (NS)