Beiderwand on the Drawloom

[@annewallbridge3759]

Love this. Please continue to share your studies. It is appreciated.

[@DuellingRabbits]

Thanks Anne - try and stop me ;-)

[@janetgiardina8603]

Another fantastic video Amy! You’re a wealth of information and you are demystifying these structures for me. Thank you for these.

[@DuellingRabbits]

I am so happy to hear that - thank you, Janet.

[@VVDCS]

i know i'm a little late to this little party, but i gotta tell you i love your videos :) your confidence and curiosity have finally got me saving up for a floor loom so i can try out all these cool things. your diagrams and draft segments are the main way i'm coming to understand both things out in the wild, so thank you immensely for your explanations!

[@DuellingRabbits]

Thank you very much. I am so happy you are enjoying the videos and that the diagrams and drafts are helping make things clearer. I am also glad to hear I sound confident ;-) I do hope you take the plunge. In the next week or so I plan to be putting out a simple recipe for damask table mats, intended for new drawloom weavers or folks who are curious about pattern possibilities on a smallish number of pattern shafts. Please stay posted.

[@VVDCS]

@@DuellingRabbits I do have a silly question: is the console bar for the draw cords mounted crooked? It seems very much like the left side of the bar is mounted higher than the right side O.o

[@DuellingRabbits]

@@VVDCS Well-spotted! You are absolutely right. Geometry. The pattern-shafts are attached to the pull-handles on the console from front-to-back and left-to-right. So the shafts at the back are attached to handles on the right-hand side of the console. To pull them up high enough (given the greater distance to the front of the loom), the handles need to come down further - hence the downwards slant on the hook bar. This is easier to show than explain: it's demonstrated in Part 4 of 'Weaving a Drawloom Project' - start at around 12:55.

[@VVDCS]

@@DuellingRabbits oh that makes perfect sense, thank you for that. If I had thought just a little bit further I would have gotten it haha. Off to watch more of your videos!

[@geririckard167]

You have done a lot of work on this, and I am amazed! I will be watching this again, it is a very cool concept!

[@DuellingRabbits]

Thanks, Geri! I admit it, this one was a challenge. But the structure is very cool and really fun to weave - and so easy once everything is set up!

[@bjork-sp4jg]

very helpful, thank you!!!!!

[@aneczkakarasek375]

I watch each movie with great attention, because in a week I will have Glimakra drawloom. Thank you.

[@DuellingRabbits]

That is really exciting! I wish you and your new loom many, many happy years together ;-)

[@aneczkakarasek375]

@@DuellingRabbits I can't wait anymore, I have modern loom and table loom, but drawloom offers other possibilities. For three days I have been watching only your movies with my nose at the monitor, catching your every word, because English is not my native language.

[@DuellingRabbits]

@@aneczkakarasek375 The drawloom is an incredible tool - I am happier weaving on my drawloom than any other! I hope you will contact me at my email address (on the 'About' page) to tell me how you are doing with your new baby. Also, if you have any questions I will try to answer. Good luck and have fun! ~Amy

[@aneczkakarasek375]

@@DuellingRabbits thank you I’ll be in touch

[@shaaraftet3797]

Excellent Amy

[@DuellingRabbits]

Thank you so much! This one was brain-bending ;-)

[@shaaraftet3797]

@@DuellingRabbits we hope to show a lot of your brain-bending :-) , it is amazing

[@DuellingRabbits]

@@shaaraftet3797 It's good exercise - mental gymnastics!

[@carolburns8667]

Very informative thank you

[@kathyolson253]

Can I come and live in your studio? 🙏

[@DuellingRabbits]

Well, it's a bit cramped in the loom room - but there might be space in the drawloom extension to spread a sleeping bag.

[@vanessad2873]

"differential take-up was not an issue with this short warp of five meters" *rigid heddle weavers be like* 👁️👄👁️

[@DuellingRabbits]

I take your point - on its own, the statement does sound kind of absurd! In my defense, rigging a drawloom is such a production it makes sense to put on as long a warp as the weaver can stand, which in my case usually means 8+ meters. On my rigid heddle loom ... not so much.