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My Looms
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The Guildcraft Silent Speed Loom was designed and manufactured in Toronto in the late 1920's or early 1930's.. I bought my first one in 1990 at my grandson't school auction. It is my favourite for plain weave scarves, table runners and placemats. If you have a silent speed loom please contact me. If you know of anyone who has parts for it, or an old one that can be used for parts, I would be delighted with that information.
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A close-up of the "reed" in the open position. It fits in a slot on the cloth beam and is open to allow continuous warping. It is then closed with cotter pins. The unique design of the reed and harness allows me to warp the full 12-inch width in less than 15 minutes.
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The Masterweaver is another Toronto-designed loom, which seems to have first appeared in 1971. The heddles are plastic disks which can be individually rotated to create any 4-shaft pattern. The instruction book states that eight shaft patterns can be created, but I have been unable to do that and still get a useable shed. I use it for open-weave four-shaft shawls.
It is reputed to have been developed by an engineer for his weaver wife who had developed arthritis and could not dress a loom. However, you need fine finger dexterity to set the heddles properly, so this seem unlikely. The shaft numbers are in raised, Braille-like dots, so perhaps it was her eyesight that was failing.
If you own and use a Masterweaver, please let me know how you like it.
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This Salish style loom was purchased on a visit to the BC Museum in Vicotria about 20 years ago. At various times, I have replaced the dowels, and most of the base. I recently rediscovered it while cleaning the basement and it is now rarely without a warp.
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These two rigid heddle looms were gifts from my sister. Both are made of highly polished natural wood. The smaller, an 11-inch weaving width, is marker Kircher Rahmen. Its reed is a wood frame with plastic inserts similar to a popsicle stick reed, at 4 dents per inch. The larger has a 19-inch weaving width and is marked Made in England. It has a wire reed with loops at the centre of each wire, producing a 6 dents per inch reed.
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