Handywoman Box Loom Playful Cats
This lovely Box Tape Loom is made from solid Cherry wood and is adorned with beautiful engravings on all 4 sides including the heddle. There is no plywood used in this loom it is completely constructed with solid cherry wood, even the warp and take up dowels are solid cherry wood. The heddle is removable so that you can change out for a different dpi. Your new loom has a hand rubbed oil finish and is ready to use.
You can find more heddles for this loom with different configuration in my shop.
A bit of History and technique info about box looms here: https://youtu.be/IVNN8libU0Y
The Durham Weaver is a great source for band weaving. This video demonstrates the double hole heddle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qynTGaBZycw&fbclid=IwAR3NoiDZoAtIcfrlpjO3TfOlZIJKuasxjBI6kokFAHMYwFj1a6R7yt2DQm4
Your new loom measures approximately 13.5" long x 10" tall x 6.25" wide The loom comes with one double hole heddle.
Your new loom is the loom pictured and includes:
1 - Standard Heddle
1 - Gepha sword shuttle
Warping instructions
and a few patterns to get you started
A great video using a box loom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CMZudC780Q
Norwegian Pick-Up Bandweaving by Heather Torgenrud
Susan Faulker Weaver has a great book And the Durham Weaver has books and you can get them as digital versions rather inexpensively as well as the hard covers. Her blog is here https://durhamweaver64.blogspot.com/ and she is another great source for pattern weaving.
Books I recommend are:
Norwegian Pick-Up Bandweaving by Heather Torgenrud
Susan Faulker Weaver has a few really great books you can get them as digital versions rather inexpensively as well as the hard covers. Her blog is here https://durhamweaver64.blogspot.com/ and she is another great source for pattern weaving.
Tape looms have been popular for centuries, before snaps, and zippers were made, people made tapes as an inexpensive way to close shoes, clothing or anything that needed a closure.
These looms were small and portable and were used to weave these tapes Even children learned to weave on tape and paddle looms because they were simple to operate and an great introduction to weaving.
Today weavers all over the world still use tape looms.