As some of you might know my grandmother recently passed away, me, my sister and my two aunts and my uncle were the ones to inherit her. Not a big inheritance, at least not if you look to monetary value, but sentimental values are fairly high on most things.
One of the things I currently have in my possession is her loom, a floor model. It’s set up in my basement, and I’m trying to figure out how to use it properly 🙂 I did weave some at my granny’s when I was a young girl, so I have some knowledge on the how to at least. The one thing I had no knowledge about is setting it up, preparing it for weaving. No problem, information is right there out in the cyberspace…
Well I got it up and running, so I went on to try and remember how granny made the patterns she wove in to the tablecloths. Today I figured it out with a little help from a computer application… It’s great to have figured it out, less great to realise I have to redo a large part of the setup of the loom to be able to actually weave the patterns…
I so wish granny had left a note on the how to somewhere, but if she did I sure didn’t find them. I guess I know what I’ll be spending a couple hours doing… It sure does take time to re-thread 192 threads through the loom 🙂