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Weaving Looms By Types

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Floor Looms

Floor looms are best used for producing longer lengths of fabric, for production work, designs that are more complex and for carpets and rugs. The loom must be solid and stable without being excessively heavy. Three different types of floor looms are: Jack, Counterbalance, and Countermarch.

Table Looms

These smaller, less expensive, portable looms are usually jack looms. Sometimes they have springs under the shafts to hold them down. Table looms are good for learning as they are portable enough to put into a car or even on a plane to take to a workshop.

Rigid Heddle Looms

These looms provide the equivalent of two-shaft weaving and can be adapted to behave as a four shaft loom by adding a second heddle set.

Tapestry Looms

The tapestry frame loom is the most simple form for a weaving loom. The Navajo loom would be considered a frame loom.

Back Strap Looms

A simple loom comprising two sticks between which the warps are stretched. One bar is attached to a fixed object and the other to the weaver usually by means of a strap around the back.

Inkle Loom

A simple table loom and can also be found in a larger form as a floor loom.

More about the types of looms here

Items Need to use a Weaving Loom

Yarn
2 or more boat or other shuttles
12 or more bobbins for boat shuttles
Reed Hook and Heddle Hook
Warping Board or Mill and raddle (or sectional warp beam, tension box with counter and bobbin rack)
book ("Learning to Weave” or "Weaving for Begginers") and DVDs ( "Introduction to Weaving” and "Beginning 4-harness Weaving” )

The Woolery has put together a Weaver's Start Up Kit and a Premium Weaver's Start Up Kit with many of the needed weaving accessories.

Optional Accessories

Bench
Bobbin Winder
A variety of Shuttles
Extra Reeds
Swift and Ballwinder if your yarn comes in skeins
Fringe Twister
Temple
Yarn Balance
Magnifier
Ott light
Auto Reed Hook
Extra Harnesses

If you don't find exactly what you want, or would like a loom recommendation, please call the shop directly at 800-441-9665 or contact us for assistance.