July/August 2020 Newsletter

I enjoy having more than one project going at a time - especially in summer. One loom has a wool scarf on it, sampling for a blanket. One loom has towels. I’m designing a new pattern for the drawloom, which requires graph paper, pencil and a large eraser.  The inkle loom is ready to be carried outside, when the weather allows and sunshine calls. Hemming towels is a nice portable activity - and finishing in a small group, in accordance with phase 2 guidelines for safety, is something I may be able to get into soon. Because I like to add woven band hanging loops to my towels, I am way behind on hemming - the bands have to match the towels! ( well, maybe that’s not the only reason I’m way behind on hemming) ​

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​So, on the latest project - inspired by the colors of the Hong Kong Ballet video in the June Newsletter, I tested the colors by weaving the inkle band first! The warp chains are measured, pre-sleyed, and on the loom, ready for winding on. When those towels are woven, I’ll be able to hem them right away! The structure is my current favorite for  4 shafts: 5-fold M’s and O’s from the M. Davison Book. M’s and O’s makes check patterns, with a variety of options in treadling and color use, and this pattern can weave checks within checks! Numerous patterns are possible on one threading! Take a look at the color samples in the photos below. I have a new appreciation for making yarn wraps, after the Linda Rees Color Challenge.
Staying safe continues to be a bit of an emotional challenge, as cases of Covid rise in Whatcom County. I am grateful for my own health, vigilant for those around me, while savoring any chance to interact with Fiber Buddies. A group of five WWG members met last week for a Demo of beaming 10 yards of cottolin 22/2 warp for towels, onto Sharon Allen’s 8-shaft Baby Wolf Loom. (We are proud of our mask-making and wearing ability!) 
Sharon had pre-measured the warp chains, and moved her loom out into the garage, with the door open onto the driveway. The weather held, and we had the warp beamed in less than an hour - then we chatted and enjoyed a little show and tell, distanced and masked. Sharon also brought out a new “aftermarket” piece of equipment, which raises the shafts to a comfortable height for threading and distinguishing between the heddles on each shaft. This is a handmade item, 3-D printed and gifted to Sharon by a weaving friend from outside our guild, and it is ingenious! Barry Schact, have you seen this? Sharon’s friend is not making these anymore - could something functional be made by gluing lego or duplo bricks together? Is there a woodworker or a 3-D printer in the area?  Sharon is now happily threading her loom, under a canopy in her driveway. ​​

​Patty Dodge is enjoying her new puppy, Tonka, and reports that not so much weaving is getting done right now, and she’s trying not to feel guilty. Tonka looks like a super fun “High Fiber” project right now! 

What could be better than sunshine and weaving! Or sunshine and gardening, or sunshine and strawberries, or just sunshine! Hoping you are doing what keeps you energized, safe, healthy and happy in these trying times.


Warm fuzzies to all,
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​​​Carol Berry
2019-2020 WWG President

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Guild Library Contents now online

Dori Painter, the Guild’s librarian is pleased to announce that the entire library inventory can now be viewed online (click here to see the inventory). The magazines and other resources are now also being uploaded to the site.

Guild Color Challenge

With so many things that affect the Guild still up in the air, for the time being, the color challenge will remain available to everyone. As new entries come in to Carol or Marilyn, we will post them on the July/August newsletter. As inspiration, we are reprinting the five we have received so far. ​They are:

Sheila Atwater
Barbara Young
Mary Oates
Wendy Eakles
Carol Berry
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Sheila’s entry is titled Gentle Summer. About her tapestry Sheila says:
The color wrap that I chose used colors that I am not particularly fond of -mainly the yellow and brownish greens. First I pictured a jungle and even started planning to make this tapestry one from the jungle.  Then I started going through some old photos from my childhood home and found one of what we called the "frog pond" because it was always full of frogs.  It didn't have a weeping willow tree but one of my neighbors has one and the leaves are always that soft yellow green.  So I guess I will call it a composite inspiration.  It needs a title however and I will call it "Gentle Summer". I used 90% wool yarns with a little silk thrown in and some raffia for the cat-tails.    
Completed May 2020 by Sheila Atwater
Linda’s “Grey Bark/Forest Spirit” as interpreted by Barbara Young
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​In addition to the color challenge itself, I set the goal of using only yarns from my stash, and to weave fabric to make something to sew. As I pulled yarns from my stash I quickly realized I didn’t have enough of any of the colors for the complete project so I decided to make stripes on a neutral background. The resulting cloth said “tote bag” to me.
The predominant teal color in Linda’s wrap is actually two colors held together and I was able to replicate that with two colors of 10/2 perle cotton (Blue/Green and Quarry). I added 5/2 perle in Birch, a thick-and-thin light blue cotton used double, and some “Cotton & Clouds” variegated neutral yarn that I picked up at a stash sale. The background is 4/2 organic cotton, Khaki in the warp and Sage for weft. 

Once the outer fabric was complete, I needed lining material: 16/2 Cottolin warp in Natural, Teal, Grey and Sage, woven with Birch 5/2 perle. Next, for the handles – I planned to use the narrow stripe of the outer fabric but needed something to provide backing and wear resistance. Two sets of 18 cards each, woven side by side with rug warp gave me the strapping I needed. With buckram for stiffening and plastic needlepoint canvas inserted in the bottom, and some sewing and holding of breath, I now have a tote bag. Thank you, Linda!
​About her entry, Mary says:
I had fun with these towels. There are 7 colors used randomly in a huck pattern.
About her entry, Wendy says: 
I’m still inching my way along toward actually warping the loom for my challenge project. My winding is in photo 1 with Linda’ original on the left and mine on the right, done mostly in Silk City Fibers Contessa (raw silk and vicose blend). I wanted to use yarns from my shelves, so the earth tones are a bit cooler than Linda’s and I reversed the color distribution from hers as well.
My project will be a Moroccan Capunche, a shawl collared coat. I used to sell these through Earthenworks in La Conner, 40ish years go. I always regretted that I didn’t keep one for myself. The warp is about 20 feet long x 20 inches wide,
​12EPI, and the weaving should go quickly once I manage to get it on the loom since I plan to do it in a simple tabby weave.
Meanwhile, I’ve continued with my obsession to learn knitted lace, and her is my very imperfect Fonse Lace Scarf#2, just blocked.
About her entry, Carol says:
My color challenge piece is based on Linda Rees's yarn wrap in magenta, orange, pink, and yellow. I did three versions of the challenge, trying to get the color impact right.  A deflected double weave shawl, an inkle band, and a twill scarf. I still don't think I got it right, but I enjoyed working with these colors.  The yellow makes such a big impact, it just takes a little bit. It was a challenge! 
Hong Kong Ballet color inspiration
Susan Torntore's "Gateway to Solace and Hope"
Sakiori woven on a frame loom; 5/2 perle cotton warp (approx. 10 epi); cotton stash fabrics (quilting batiks and Maiwa off-cuts)
10.5" w x 14.5" h
I love the colors in the  wrap of Linda's that I selected, but don't often use them in my weaving or knitting. So that was the challenge I set for myself, with the addition of only using materials from my stash. 
After I discovered all of the perfect wrap colors in my sakiori and scrap fabric stash, and much consternation about the design, the inspiration for the piece finally surfaced. I warped the loom with gold perle cotton, did a proportional drawing of the wrap's landscape strata and started weaving. I cut strips as I wove and played with the idea of the raw edges, trying to channel my inner Anita Mayer. I loved making this piece, the simple weaving over and under/under and over of each row, and playing with the colors as each weft needed to be added. I named the weaving based on the meanings of its primary colors--purple and orange, and how they spoke to me. In the end, this weaving also became a pandemic meditation for me. Purple is considered a gateway to the spirit, and the range of darker red oranges, rusts, and red browns are felt as colors of comfort, security, and hope.
 
As I was documenting the piece, I wondered if Linda had woven any pieces with this colorway wrap. I was excited to find one gorgeous tapestry on the WWG website from 1978, called “Anchor Red.” It uses most of the colors in the same type of color progression as I used them from her wrap, and it uses my favorite pick-and-pick method to move the colors along in layered strata. Thank you so much, Linda, for your inspiration!

International Outreach ​

​Judith Sen, with a lot of assistance from her weaving friends, is helping to start a weaving school in Niger. Her friend Soumana Saley started a free vocational training school in Niger in 2017. Right now the school is training 75 students in tailoring and leather working.

Several years ago, while Soumana was visiting Judith in Bellingham, he went with her to the Jansen Center to help her warp a loom in preparation for a workshop. Soumana looked around and decided it would be a good idea to start a weaving school to preserve a traditional style of Nigerien weaving known as tera-tera. On his next trip to Niger he started discussions with one of the few remaining master weavers of tera-tera, Abdouwahid.

Our goal is to get Abdouwahid to the Sante Fe Folk Festival. He is eager to begin teaching a new generation. We decided to start the students on traditional looms because it will be much less expensive and no matter what money we are able to raise, one way or another that weaving school will begin around September. The school itself started with a couple of old sewing machines from friends’ attics in Pennsylvania and the school’s conference is my old patio table. As Charllotte Kwon told me during our last visit to Maiwa, you need very little to do a lot.
In addition to the traditional looms, one of the things the weaver requested was a production floor loom. By moving from a traditional strip loom to a floor loom, he would be able to increase his productivity and, therefore, his income. So Carol Berry, Leslie Strong, Marilyn Stemerick and Judith, all members of the Whatcom Weavers Guild, have come together to purchase a 36” floor loom that is scheduled to arrive in Niger this summer.

And now we also have plans to help start a school. Here is a brief description of those plans and the crowd funding campaign that is starting June 8.
If you would like to talk with Judith about the project, you can reach her at jsn21899@gmail.com.
Interlacements and dubbing in Spanish

Those of you who may have seen the documentary film Interlacements, or heard of it, know how much it speaks to forming community around weaving.  When Marilyn and Rainer Romatka showed this film to Deb Essen, her request was to have it dubbed in Spanish.  Deb is currently living in Guatemala and working with the weavers there.  Her comment to the Romatka's was that the weavers she’s working with would be so uplifted and inspired to know that people in the US value weaving and the communities it creates.  Many of her weavers are illiterate, so dubbing, not sub-titling is important.

The dubbing will have an expense of $5000, and the Romatka’s are in the process of raising those funds though a GoFundMe site.  If you’re interested in supporting this GoFundMe click here.

Even a small donation could help the Romatka's reach their fundraising goal. And if you can't make a donation, it would be great if you could share the fundraiser to help spread the word.

Thanks for taking a look! ​

Study Groups, Fiber Show and Share Options

Warping Back to Front
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A group of five WWG members met last week for a demo of beaming 10 yeards of cottolin 22/2 warp for towels onto Sharon Allen’s 8-shaft Baby Wolf loom. Sharon had pre-measured the warp chains and moved her loom out into the garage, with the door open onto the driveway.
Eco-Dyeing Study Group

The eco dye study group is on hiatus until things return to normal. But it is spring! Leaves are out. Things are budding. Go no further than your yard experiment. Let Dori and I know what you are doing. Any questions, you can e-mail Dori (Dori painter@gmail.com) or me(meoates@comcast.net) for help, information, or just for the fun of it. I will keep you updated about when we can meat again.
Mary Oates
Samples of eco-dyed scarves
Fiber Show and Share Options
Until we have a better idea of when we can actually meet again as a Guild, several members have offered ideas and resources to consider. These include:

Online ideas:
Sharon Allen is investigating a national free online workshop to weave a scarf from stash yarns led by instructors who are not leading classes in person at this point. Pat Wrigley suggests the Jane Stafford Online Guild and Sheila Atwater is signed up for the Rebecca Metzoff Tapestry Workshop.

Learning more about Countermarche weaving.
Paula Tarleton has a new 8-shaft very wide Cranbrook Countermarche loom and is interested in learning from other countermarche and 8-shaft weavers. Contact Paula at 38.tarleton@gmail.com.

Interested in Deflected Double Weave or Shadow Weave? Log Cabin Shadow weave on a Rigid Heddle is super fun and can be done outdoors. Contact Sharon or Carol if you want to join in, need coaching to get your rigid heddle warped, a yarn evaluation, or just need some encouragement.
Stehekin 2020 Spinning Rendezvous

Stehekin is an intriguing mix of private property and national park land toward the northeast end of Lake Chelan. It can be reached by float plane, boat, or a 17-mile hike since roads don’t go that far north on the lake. The Stehekin Valley Ranch, site of the Spinning Rendezvous, is private land about 10 miles north of the boat landing.

Although several registrants dropped out this year because of health concerns, seven of us attended. Georgean Curran, an Ashford dealer, brought 5 colors of roving—black, white, and neon bright yellow, hot pink, and cyan. We used our hand cards to blend and spin the three neon brights into 12 colors. Then we did the same blends plus white to get pastels and repeated the blends a third time with black. Our fun surprise was to see that yellow and black created shades of olive green.

In addition, Georgean showed folks how to spin art yarns—beehive yarn to use as weft accents in scarves and shawls and frosted mohair yarns. Next year, we’d like her to bring red, yellow, and blue roving so we could blend a color wheel with standard colors. We also plan to have some needle felting instruction.

Besides the spinning, which was great fun, we had other activities. One of the other guests at the Ranch was a fitness instructor. She volunteered to teach a stretching and balance class one afternoon. A couple folks took advantage of the electric bikes and rode several miles down the road to the bakery. Four of us were given a ride 2 miles up the road to a bridge where the road ended. We hiked back to the Ranch, enjoying views of the woods and wildflowers.
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On the way to Stehekin, we asked the boat pilots to swing by the cliff across from the Landing so we could see the petroglyphs. On the trip from the Ranch back to the Landing, we stopped at the Buckner apple orchard (still run by the Park Service), Rainbow Falls, the bakery, the old one-room schoolhouse, and the organic gardens where several people got homemade goat cheese. It was a wonderful, relaxing, and creative weekend.

Upcoming Events / Classes at the Jansen Art Center

On May 22, representing the Jansen Art Center Textile Group, Sheri Ward and Marilyn Olsen, along with those representing the other studios, attended a Zoom meeting called by the J’s executive director, Vin Quenneville. There was much discussion about what might happen when, but as of this week, there is no definite plan for how or when the J will again be available for classes, performances or even a cup of coffee. Although, since the J does have a liquor license, it will soon be offering take-out beer and wine. Cheers!! We will let you know what’s happening as soon as we know more.

Once the J is open we hope to be able to offer the following:
  • Beginning Weaving with Sheri Ward
  • Felted Slippers with Donna Hunter
  • Color & Weave with Sheri Ward
  • Beginning Spinning with Chris Paul
  • Felting Workshops with Flora Carlisle-Kovács
Felting Workshops with Flóra Carlisle-Kovács, Oct. 12-16; Guild program on Oct. 17

We are excited that Flóra Carlisle-Kovács is returning to the Jansen Art Center to offer a three-day workshop on felted hats and two one-day workshops on Felted Flower Jewelry and Mosaic Scarf. Save these dates if you would like to participate! There will be a short time of restricted registration for guild members and members of the felting interest group. Stay tuned for details.

In addition, Flora will be offering the October guild program on Saturday, Oct. 17 at the Jansen Art Center. Flora plans to talk about how shrinkage works and how we can use the staple direction in order to shape a garment or object. Flora is also open to addressing other felting questions you may have.

Sheltering in Place

Again for inspiration we are repeating the content from June.
Kelley Dragon:
I finished this rug from last month. It will end up as a wall hanging, because it likes to slide around on my floors, It is a texture gamp with limited colors, but lots of weights: 3/2 -20/2. I cut it in half at the black stripe so one part could be washed and the other left as is. The left hand end was the real sampling with colors to suit my fancy.
The clasped-weft shawl with subtle iridescence was woven in 8/2 cottolin, 2/dent in a 12-dent reed. This was SLOW weaving! Based on that, I made a set of 8/2 towels with lots of color
Mary Oates:
Now that I am home indefinitely, I decided to tackle krokbragd.  It seems so simple.  Only 3 shafts that you treadle 2/3, 1/3, 1/2.  The pattern comes from the color changes.  I began with rug mugs on my table loom.  Here’s what I have learned so far.  First, not all three ply yarns are equal.  This is also true when you are doing tapestry.  Some are more springy and do not pack as tightly so that can change the evenness of the pattern. The second thing is the frequent yarn color changes which affect the selvage.  That’s a work in progress as is what to do with the ends as you start or end.  Madelyn van der Hoogt suggests you work them in later.  We will see.  It also makes for interesting edges.  So for now I am working on my samples and remembering how slow bound weave is.  It doesn’t speed it up to be on a table loom. Oh well, I have nowhere else to be.  I’m working towards a wall sampler and then a rug.  When I get tired of that I move on to my tapestry loom. A other example of slow weaving. That’s weaving in the time of the shut down.
Marilyn Olsen:
Just before we couldn’t meet together at Sheila’s house anymore, I had become the most beginner of all beginners at tapestry. At our last meeting together, Sheila showed us a wonderful collection of tapestries she calls The Animals of the Fair. At that point there was still going to BE a fair and even then I knew I was on shaky ground making anything in tapestry that might vaguely resemble a fair animal (or maybe any animal). However, since I have been a quilter for many, many years and have kept making small animal quilts during the shutdown, when I found out there wasn’t going to be a Fair this year, I created this piece. It is titled, “What no Fair???? NO FAIR!!!
Katia Paróczi:
​My newest tapestry "Ariadne in the Desert" has been completed ahead of schedule thanks to reduced work load and sheltering at home. It measures 46" x 39" woven at 12 EPI with handspun weft over cotton warp.
Susan Torntore: Pandemic Postcard Project
For the last few years, one of my failed New Year's goals has been to work on a daily art/weaving journal. In March, while sheltering-in-place with my sister in Duluth MN, a friend's challenge to make and share pandemic postcards finally began this creative journey for me (we used to make postcards for each other as a New Year's project). All I could find in Duluth to purchase was a pack of blank postcards from Michael's, and a scrapbook pack of "splash" rainbow-colored cardstock and glue sticks from Walmart. Since I've been home, we have continued the project and I've expanded my material stash a bit, but I really love the limitations of the papers and process. I have also stretched my ideas from the weavings into cut-paper "pictures" and collage. The project has become an important journey of reflection, meditation, inspiration, making, sharing, documenting, and coping in this time of pandemic we are all living through. And, I suspect, these postcards will become sketches and ideas for my "real" textile.
Blueberry jacket by Sheri Ward

Warp: "Pewter" Jaggerspun wool, 20/2, sett at 30 epi, 30" wide
Weft:
20/2 blue silk
20/2 tussah natural silk, over-dyed to dark purple/brown
For pattern weft in the overshot portions, Kelbourne-Acadia, color Acadia Blueberry, 60% merino wool, 20% baby alpaca, 20% silk; 50 grams = 145 yards
Tabby weft in the overshot portions is the same as warp, 20/2 pewter wool

Inspiration for this was from "A Winter Confection," in the Jan/Feb 2019 Handwoven, p 32. The draft was turned, so two colors are used in the weft rather than the warp.
Weave structure: advancing twill in warp and weft for the body and sleeves. The decorative overshot portions are achieved by changing the tie-up and treadling.
The diamond figures in the cloth can appear to move in an M formation, a W formation, or not at all depending on the use of the two silk weft yarns.
The body is all one piece, no seams at all. The weft direction is vertical on the garment.
I ran out of the dark silk weft, so altered the sleeve pattern from full-length to sleeves with a longish cuff.
Lining: Hand-dyed silk, obtained at one of the LaConner Quilt Museum's annual fundraisers. I cut the silk for the body part of the lining first, then used it as a quasi-muslin for the woven fabric; inserted an inside pocket in the lining; then cut the woven fabric. The body and cuffs are lined, but not the upper part of the sleeves.
Braid for trim on front and to form button-holes: 7-strand kumihimo braid, with 3 strands of the blueberry, 4 strands of pewter (2 yarns used as one for each strand).
The braid took forever to make, but I'm glad I did it. It provides a nice finish to the front (and made buttonholes!)

Exhibits

Jansen Studio Showcase Exhibit Extended Through August
The Jansen Studio Showcase Exhibit, first put on display in early March, will remain on exhibit through the end of August to give everyone a chance to see it. The Studio Showcase features an exhibit of pieces by students and instructors of the various studio, and it’s on display in the Library on the second floor. The new date for taking the exhibit down is august 27, and for artists to retrieve their work is August 28.
Rug by Mary Rawlins
checked towel by Marcia Ford 
Cockeral by Sheri Ward 
​Eco-died scarf by Mary Oates
Felted apple print by Donna Hunter, overshot scarf by Patrick Keiley 
​Blackbird felted piece by Brigid Wilson
Felted hats by Flora Carlisle-Kovacs
Eco-dyed and embroidered panels by Paddy Bruce
Eco-dyed panel by Dori Painter
Fiber Showcase 2020
Guild members are invited to exhibit their textile creations this winter at the Fiber Showcase 2020. The show will be on exhibit during the months of December through February. It will be open to all guild members, Jansen students and instructors and members of the Jansen Textile Group. This exhibit will be similar to those we’ve had in the past few years, associated with Fibers and Beyond. Be thinking about what you might want to show off in this lovely exhibit venue and stay tuned for details.

Video You Might Enjoy

Tsi’li’xw (Bill James) Master Weaver and Hereditary Chief of the Lummi Nation discusses the methods, materials and value of weaving among the Coast Salish Indians of the Pacific Northwest. This video is also featured in the Whatom Museum exhibit, Children of the Sea and Cedar.

Activities and Schedules of other Organizations

Due to the uncertainty around us regarding how and when organizations may again begin meeting and/or holding events, we are not able to provide updated information. Below is contact information for many of these groups in our area.

Olympiaweaversguild.org
Whidbeyweaversguild.org
Liz Moncrief, www.aweaversway.com
Skagitcountyweaversguild.org
Spindrifters: Contact Kelley Dragon (Spindriftersnews@icloud.net) 
News From ANWG
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The Whatcom Weavers Guild is a member of ANWG, the Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds. This organization is an association of fiber arts guilds located throughout the Pacific Northwest United States and Canada. ANWG provides support and information to its members. It also sponsors an association-wide conference every two years. The Whatcom Weavers Guild partnered with the Seattle Guild to plan the conference held at Western Washington University in 2013.
Each guild is encouraged to designate a Guild member to attend ANWG meetings and keep member Guilds up to date on ANWG activities. Susan Torntore is our guild’s representative.
The next ANWG conference (Fiber Connections) will be held at Wilamette University in Salem, Oregon, June 7-12, 2021.

Obituary

Bill James - Lummi Hereditary Chief, Artist, Weaver, Teacher
Bill Tsi'li'xw James, hereditary chief of the Lummi people, was a teacher of culture, language and art who passed on teachings until his last breath … Some of us in the Whatcom Guild have been fortunate to meet and learn from him.
Tsi'li'xw  a Lummi textile and basket weaver, environmental activist, and tribal historian, absorbed the artistic and cultural traditions of his tribe as a means to both revitalize Coast Salish weaving and halt the loss of the Lummi language. Born in 1944 in Bellingham, he grew up in poverty on the Lummi Reservation in Northwest Washington. He attended a nearby high school until his disagreements with teachers over a culturally insensitive curriculum led him to drop out. Federal Indian officials shipped him to a boarding school for the arts in New Mexico, where he grew curious about his own tribe's artistic practices. Returning to the Lummi Reservation in the early 1960s, he apprenticed with Native weavers and taught himself Coast Salish-style textile weaving on a loom, using wool spun by his mother, Fran James (1925-2013). He and his mother also undertook basketweaving. Their crafts became the focus of art-gallery exhibits and are in the collection of the Burke Museum. James taught weaving and language on the reservation, and created a dictionary of the Lummi language. In his 70s, until his death in 2020, he continued to weave and teach, along with helping his tribe fight environmental pollution on and near the reservation.
Leslie Comstock
We are saddened to learn that WWG member Leslie Comstock passed away in May. Leslie was also active in the Whidbey Guild and her obituary is published in the most recent edition of the Whidbey Guild’s newsletter.

Classified Ads

FOR SALE
Schacht Tension Box – Used with the sectional warp beam, the Schacht Tension Box features a mounting bracket that adjusts to fit all Schacht looms: Wolf, Standard or Cranbrook. It would be compatible with other floor looms as well. Features include: two-sided sturdy construction with a reed at the back, an adjustable tension knob, a heddle to make the cross and a swiveling reed at the front to adjust the feeding width of the warp. Like new; never used. $220 (Current online price is $340).
Contact Kelley Dragon, wise_lady@mac.com
FOR SALE
Shaw Island Fleece Company wood floor loom. $400 (open to negotiation). 48” x 48”. 4 harnesses, t treadle, sectional beam. Warping wheel is included. The loom is near a doorway for easy viewing and social distancing will be respected. Contact: Denise Snyder, denise@dsnyderartist.com. 


Free Barn Loom
5’x5’x5’ (estimated size) a challenge for the right place. Contact Carol Berry or Sharon Allen if interested. We will assist with transport and set-up. Was used in a high school classroom by the owner’s Mom. Current owner is not a weaver, and needs the space for another project, asap. ​
FOR SALE
45 inch 6 shaft  Kessenich loom.  $700.00.  This is a heavy loom made of golden oak.
Includes bench with a storage compartment, 4 reeds, side tables, extra heddles, raddle, back beam sticks.  This is an extremely sturdy loom that can be used for all types of weaving including rugs.  There is a removable weight for the beater bar.  I can be contacted at meoates@ Comcast.net or 360-961-0686.