Kelli

Thank you! 💜

Ok so this is actually from a couple of days ago now but I'm just getting caught up on posting alltheplaces. My second project on the Pendleton floor loom is in motion! #weaving #slowcloth #floorloom #fiberarts

She's home! My refurbished 4 shaft 30" Pendleton floor loom made the trip from my Parents' house to my home studio safe and sound earlier today. #weaving #fiberarts #floorloom

Thanks so much! 😊

Thank you! 💜

Fnished the small test warp on the refurb 4 shaft Pendleton floor loom! My beat & selvages are still inconsistent but I'm feeling comfortable at the loom & I'm ridiculously proud of this strip of handwoven web. If the weather cooperates we're planning to move her home on Tues! 🤞 #weaving #fiberarts

Huzzah indeed!!! 🎉😊

I'm officially in my floor loom weaving era!!!! Unspeakably proud of this wonky little bit of weaving. Now it's practice, practice, practice. But not until at least Monday. Resting time. #weaving #slowcloth #floorloom #fiberarts

I hope you find something that will work! 🤞

Not sure if this info transfers to a Rasmussen but I've read from someone who does a lot of loom maintenance/refurbishing that you can use screen door springs from the hardware store to replace Macomber brake springs. Maybe worth a shot?

Floor loom reassembly is complete! A couple of small things to dial in still but that will happen Sat when I go over to put the test warp on. Tomorrow is definitely a rest day! #weaving #floorloom

We got so much done today on the 4 shaft Pendleton floor loom with installing replacement parts and doing most of the major reassembly! Rest day tomorrow but we should be able to tackle the rest on Thursday. Initial function tests are looking good! #weaving #floorloom #fiberarts

Good to know, thanks!

So exciting!! She's stunning. What kind of sizing treatment are you planning to use?

Absolutely! My rigid heddle loom flips upside down and becomes a small warping board but it's going to be wonderful to have a larger stand alone one as I move to the floor loom. I usually use an attachment on my cordless drill to wind bobbins but I think having a manual option is key!

I haven't even gotten into counting the wire heddles on the Dorothy table loom yet but it's great to know that if I need to supplement I can and I'm less concerned about abrasion from the steel heddles on the table loom which will have less tension and shorter warps than the floor loom.

Three hundred and forty four flat steel heddles that are nine and a half inches long are bundled onto zip ties and laid on top of some newspaper on Kelli's dye table.

The Pendleton loom came with 344 9.5" flat steel heddles. Too few to weave my kitchen towels. I decided to do a full replacement with inserted eye heddles (B-day present), keeping the old ones for backups after cleaning/oiling them. In a stroke of kismet the table loom takes...9.5" heddles! #weaving

I can't wait to put them to the best use I can!

🤣 Yeah we gotta get the Landlord onto building me out a loom room.

The 4 shaft 15.75" Dorothy table loom needs a cloth beam crank but the reed looks salvageable with a little corrosion removal and otherwise I think it just needs cleaning. I haven't really gotten the best look down inside it yet but the levers do function properly.

Yes I'm so grateful and excited! For years she's been half joking about me inheriting her huuuuge counterbalance loom (which we would never have room for) and she seemed really happy to be able to pass some things along that will get a loving new home and put to good use again. 😊

The warping board was the thing I really needed ASAP and this one was handmade by her Aunt so it's extra special! It does need reglueing of some pegs but that's easy peasy. The bobbin winder just needs a drive band and it's compatible with the Leclerc storage spools which is perfect!

I'm overwhelmed with gratitude! The Leclerc rocking weaving bench is the exact one I was hoping to someday aquire since the long term goal is an 8 shaft 32" Macomber and this is the only commercial bench I've seen that adjusts high enough for a Mac and has the angle adjustment as well.

A view of Kelli's dye table area laden with new to them weaving equipment including a weaving bench with the sode storage bags removed and placed on top, a handmade warping board, a four shaft fifteen and three quarter inch table loom, a bobbin winder, boat shuttles and bobbins, small stick shuttles, tapestry beaters and tapestry bobbins.

A closer view of the smaller weaving items laid out on Kelli's dye table on top of newspaper. The reed and cloth beam from the table loom sit off to one side.

An angled view of Kelli's dye table and the four shaft Leclerc Dorothy table loom.

On the day the Pendleton loom came to me my Wife happened to be heading out of town to visit her family for a few days. While there she got a chance to see her Aunt who in addition to being a fantastic human was a weaver for many years. Rae came back with a car full of goodies for me! #weaving

A photo collage showing two images. The left photo is of a largely disassembled four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom sitting on a blue tarp in a kitchen. The right photo shows some of the smaller wooden loom parts like the treadle assembly laid out on a piece of cardboard on a kitchen table. The wood on both photos is clean but very dry and light colored.

A photo collage showing four images. The top two photos show a side and front angle of the largely disassembled four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom from the first photo collage. Newspapers have been laid down between the tarp and the loom. The bottom two photos show some of the other loom parts that have been removed for cleaning and reconditioning laid out on a piece of cardboard and some newspaper on a kitchen table. The wood in all of the photos has gotten two coats of Howard's Feed and Wax and is considerably darker, warmer and healthier looking compared to the before state.

Update on the Pendleton loom refurbishment! It's progressing beautifully & today we started replenishing the extremely dry wood. Left is after cleaning but before conditioning. Right is after 2 coats of Howard's Feed & Wax. Replacement parts are on their way & then we can start reassembly! #weaving

A four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom sits folded outside on a slate walkway in front of a driveway.

A four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom is sitting unfolded and largely disassembled on a blue tarp in the kitchen of Kelli's childhood home. The loom has been freshly cleaned and the metal parts have been oiled.

Yesterday a dear friend passed along to me a 4 shaft 30" weaving width Pendleton floor loom!! She needs some TLC, a couple of small repairs & some replacement parts but my Parents are helping me with the refurb and we've already made a ton of progress! #weaving #slowcloth #floorloom #fiberarts

An angled view of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom equipped with two 10 dent heddles. On top of the hand dyed warp lay seven paper quills wound with different colors of hand dyed hemp and organic cotton yarn.

An angled view of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom equipped with two 10 dent heddles, a pick up stick and a heddle rod. A couple of inches of three one twill has been woven in black weft yarn. A Bluster Bay slim boat shuttle with a paper quill of the black hand dyed weft sits diagonally on the warp.

A view of Kelli's studio. In foreground is a small side table with a handmade wooden yarn cone stand sitting on top. Stacked on the posts of the cone winder are center pull cakes of hand dyed hemp and organic cotton eight two yarn in a variety of colors.

Weft yarns wound and away we go! #weaving #handdyed #fiberarts

Thank you! 💜

An angled view of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom equipped with two 10 dent heddles and warped with a hand dyed warp of transitioning stripes. A pick up stick and a heddle rod with string heddles attached can be seen behind the rigid heddles.

Two piles of string heddles lay on Kelli's desk. In the lefthand pile the loops are larger. The righthand pile contains fewer string heddles and the loops have been knotted a second time to reduce the size of the loop in the string. One string heddle from each pile sits separated in the middle to show the difference.

Pickup stick & heddle rod are all set! Need to wind some weft & the weaving can begin! I haven't woven 3/1 twill since my first towel project in 2017. Luckily I still had all my string heddles tucked safely away but I remember them being a bit too long so I spent time shortening them all. #weaving

A view of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom equipped with two 10 dent heddles that have been threaded with a transitioning stripe warp made of a hand painted repeating purple gradient and silver grey speckle overdyed yarns.

Front heddle is threaded and my shoulder says that's plenty for today. #handdyed #weaving #fiberarts