Jack loom Archives - Acton Creative https://actoncreative.net/tag/jack-loom/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:42:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Exploring My Jack Loom https://actoncreative.net/2024/01/31/exploring-my-jack-loom/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:10:42 +0000 https://actoncreative.net/?p=31455 Today, I'm being adventurous and exploring my jack loom! Wanna come? Let's go! For every weaver, it is important to have at least a general idea of how your loom works. How does it separate the warp yarns, evenly smash the weft yarns, and forward the fabric? Those are good elements to know as you [...]

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]]> Today, I’m being adventurous and exploring my jack loom! Wanna come? Let’s go!

For every weaver, it is important to have at least a general idea of how your loom works. How does it separate the warp yarns, evenly smash the weft yarns, and forward the fabric? Those are good elements to know as you happily weave along.

So, I’m diving under my loom in order to point out exactly how my jack loom works (and as a bonus, I’ll explain why it’s called a “jack” loom). Please enjoy episode 151!

Show Notes –

Jack Loom vs Counterbalance Loom – Oooh, the great Madelyn Van Der Hoogt strikes again! She wrote an informative “Ask Madelyn” blog post about the difference between looms. Matter of fact, in the article she clarifies that the term “rising shed” is a misnomer. A shed doesn’t rise, but a shaft does. Instead, a shed merely opens. Fascinating! (Mind you, I read the blog post AFTER I recorded my episode, so of course I alluded to a “rising shed”! Ha!) Here is the link so you can check it out yourself. 

Treadles & Tie-Ups – There are few episodes that I film while sitting on the floor. But, I do have a popular video all about treadles and tie-ups that requires a little criss-cross-applesauce action. Click here to see it for yourself. 

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]]> Identify Your Style of Loom https://actoncreative.net/2023/06/07/identify-your-style-of-loom/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:22:25 +0000 https://actoncreative.net/?p=31096 Today, we're going to learn to how identify your style of loom. This is going to be particularly helpful for my friends who inherited a loom, or purchased one used so there's a bit of mystery surrounding it! You see, looms are all designed to separate the warp yarns so you can toss your shuttle [...]

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]]> Today, we’re going to learn to how identify your style of loom. This is going to be particularly helpful for my friends who inherited a loom, or purchased one used so there’s a bit of mystery surrounding it!

You see, looms are all designed to separate the warp yarns so you can toss your shuttle and make fabric. That’s their purpose in life and we thank them for it!

However, not all looms accomplish this in the same fashion. Once you understand how each style of loom separates the warp yarns, you can easily identify your style of loom. Thus, episode 126 of “A Handwoven Experience” was born! Please enjoy!

Show Notes –

Different types of looms – Jane Stafford created a thorough, technical post about how the various styles of looms work. She does a MUCH better job explaining a countermarche loom than I do (mostly because I still don’t quite understand where everything goes on a countermarche!). If you are curious and love to read about mechanics, this is a great blog post for you! Read it right here. 

Tour of my Floor Loom – WAY back at the beginning of time when I started recording videos for “A Handwoven Experience”, I created a video (episode 4) walking you through a tour of my floor loom. While you’ve probably seen me weaving at it before, the video shows it without a project on it so you can better see how it works. (Plus, you can appreciate how far I’ve come now that I know how to add words to a video and wear lipstick! Ha!) You can check out, “A Tour of My Floor Loom” here.

Acton Creative Insiders – 

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