I have just done that myself. Mine is a jack loom so my harnesses rise. You'd have to check to see if yours rise or fall or is counterbalanced over a roller. It puts together very similar but I don't know about the counterbalance parts. TO assemble a large floor loom: If you wish I can send a photo with numbers but offboard) 1. layout all the pieces. Find the side pieces. This may be several pieces to form the ends of the frame. One left One right. 2. Most looms have a back board that hold the bottom back edge together. Find that. If there is a front bottom board, connect it as well. 3. THere should be 2 beams that turn. One goes in the back, the warping beam, for winding the yarn onto before carrying the yarn through the heddles. THe other, the cloth beam, is placed in the front about halfway down. This is the beam where the woven fabric is collected once woven. THere may be parts for stopping each of the warping and cloth beams. 4. On mine I attach the strange piece that holds the foot unit where the tie-ups will be later. One brake will prevent the warping beam from turning too much. You'd have to figure out what your loom does, because there are different brakes used. On the front there will be some kind of device to advance the cloth beam, usually looks like a handle of some kind. 5. Castle assembly (I left mine assembled for moving): this is the broad multi-pieced unit that sits on top of the frame. It has the frames that hold the heddles and ropes to lift the harnesses(the wire frame that hold the heddles). Connect this unit to the frame at the sides. Follow the ropes around the round wheels on the end and carry them down and around the end to the under carriage of the castle. It looks like a box that hold 4 or more swinging parts with little hooks to attach the ropes. When attached properly, some kind of hook/bolt will hang down to pick up one of the foot petals to make a pattern. WHen assembled correctly, depress a foot petal, this pulls down one of the undercarriage, pulling the rope tight, lifting or sinking one of the farnesses. If this happens then it's running right. 6. Attach the beater bar unit. It has 2 end boards and one that is horizontal. There are 2 boards but the opper one moves and the bottom one is stationary. It ususally attaches somewhere towards the front edge of both side units. It should swing toward the front easily. 7. There are 2 boards that look alike or very similar. One is a backbeam and one is a breast beam. I think this will be a complete instruction to assemble the loom. I can write the numbers on a photo of a loom if you have one. I can find one if you know the model you have. I went to grad school to do this so I had to assemble and disassemble a loom for a test. Just let me know if you need more help.
Sincerely, Rebecca Rautine > Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:20:06 -0700 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [h-cost] I have a request for info about a wooden loom > > At 05:58 PM 7/27/2009, you wrote: > >I have a new friend whose daughter inherited a large wooden loom - > >which unfortunately was disassembled. > > > >Does anyone know of a website for general information about > >reassembling a very large loom? He knows almost nothing about the > >loom (it's in another state). His daughter could not find any > >markings on it. It was manually operated. Disassembled, it fit > >(barely) in the back of a pickup. > > > >Is there a website he can use to get some idea of how to put it back > >together? > > > >Thanks, > > Deb Salisbury > > The Mantua-Maker > > Designer and creator of quality historical sewing patterns > > Renaissance to Victorian > > Now available: > > Elephant's Breath and London Smoke: Historical Colors, > > Names, Definitions & Uses > > www.mantua-maker.com > > http://mantua-maker-patterns.blogspot.com - See my Color of the Day > > I would recommend that he look for a Weavers' Guild in his > area. That way he can actually find someone who weaves and can draw > on their expertise. Here's the web site for the Handweavers' Guild > of America http://www.weavespindye.org/ ; other source for guilds are > Spin-off Magazine http://spinoffmagazine.com/ and Handwoven > http://www.interweave.com/weave/handwoven_magazine/ . > > > Joan Jurancich > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Celebrate the moment with your favorite sports pics. Check it out. http://www.windowslive.com/Online/Hotmail/Campaign/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_QA_HM_sports_photos_072009&cat=sports _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
