Well I am now the proud owner of a four shaft table weaving loom. It is a Toika 'Leena' and although it is an older model it's in pretty good shape and has pride of place in the 'new' shed. It arrived on a Saturday nearly three weeks ago and although it was in pieces it quickly went together.. but...the heddles were in a realmess and not having any experience
with string heddles it took me ages to get them sorted.
Likewise it took me ages to sort out the warping process. The book 'Learning to Weave' by Deborah Chandler was invaluable.
After a lot of trials and errors I finally got to the stage where I could start weaving....
I used acrylic 4 ply left over from my
machine knitting days and set about trying out my new 'toy'. I followed some of the advice in the Deborah Chandler book and followed some of the twill patterns from the 'Ashford Book of Weaving' and also 'did my own thing'. Hopefully next time I blog about my new loom I will have actually made something..... It's OK doing a practice piece but much more interesting actually making something....
