Floor Looms

THE LOOM WIZARD

Having trouble setting up your loom?  In a muddle with warping?

It can be so frustrating when all you want to do is start weaving....so....why not call in the Loom Wizard?  I will travel to you to help you to sort out any problems you are experiencing with your loom.  With over 25 years of experience with all types of hand looms (excluding dobby looms) I have set up and fine tuned numerous looms.  I can also help with warping and tie-ups.  

I am prepared to travel within a radius of 50 miles of Midhurst, West Sussex.

LOOKING FOR A LOUET FLOOR LOOM OR SIMILAR

WANTED DOBBY LOOM - COMPUTER OR MECHANICAL

WANTED AVL DOBBY LOOM OR OTHER BRAND COMPUTER DOBBY LOOM

WANTED: COMPU-DOBBY LOOM/MECHANICAL DOBBY

BUILDING OR RESTORING A FLOOR LOOM?

I have some floor loom parts to give away... front and back beams etc.  Collection from West Sussex.  For more details, please telephone.

WANTED : HATTERSLEY DOMESTIC LOOMS / LANCASHIRE 2/2 LOOMS

I'm looking for Hattersley Domestic Looms mark 1 or mark 2 and / or Lancashire 2/2 heritage looms and / or a Dob Cross -  working preferred (particularly with the Dob Cross)  but happy to restore if you have one in bits. I would also like to buy pirn winders that go alongside and if anyone has a warping mill that would be brilliant. We are building a community woollen mill for cloth production and would prefer heritage kit.

Happy to pay cash and will collect from any where in the UK / Ireland

WANTED: Hattersley Domestic Treadle Loom (MK1 or MK2) or other treadle loom

Wanted: Hattersley Domestic Treadle Loom (MK1 or MK2) or other treadle loom in order to start a small weaving studio. Ideally in complete working condition, but all looms or parts of looms considered. Happy to collect from all parts of UK or Ireland and possibly even arrange shipping of looms abroad.  

Loom Bench

see Miscellaneous section of this catalogue

1. Glimakra Upright Rug/Tapestry Loom

Gilmakra upright rug/tapestry loom,  2 shafts, 160 cm wide

In very good condition

Best reasonable price considered

Collect from Northern Ireland

2. Four Shaft Counterbalance Floor Loom

Mahogany Counterbalance floor loom for sale.  It has four shafts and six pedals.  In need of a bit of TLC, needs new canvases at each end of weaving work, otherwise it is still a very strong and robust loom.  Weaving width: 3'8", length: 4'.  Buyer collects from Bampton, Devon.

3. Four Shaft Counterbalance Floor Loom

Aprox 3ft wide, its an old loom with all parts included (three reeds included and associated weaving books)

Collection only from Peterborough.

4. Toika Four Shaft Loom

5. Berga Savonia Countermarch Loom - Reduced Price

This Finnish, Berga Savonia, countermarch loom measures 165cm front to back and 150cms in width, with a weaving width of 101cm. It has 4 shafts and 8 pedals, and a No 8 reed. The main body of the loom is 170cm high.

I have however adapted the loom, for rug weaving, according to the design of Peter Collingwood. I attached two verticals to the back of the loom, to a height of 230 cm. Between these verticals is a moveable bar held in place by pins placed in the verticals.

To warp this loom, a linen warp is wound onto the back beam using the sectional warping method. The ‘movable bar’ is then lifted up to the top of the verticals bars so the warp now comes off the back beam, vertically up to the movable bar and back down to the weaving level where it goes horizontally to the front beam as normal. As weaving proceeds, the moveable bar can easily be moved down the verticals in short stages providing a few more inches of warp to weave until the rug is complete. This method retains even tension throughout the weaving process. It sounds complicated but once it’s set up is remarkably straightforward to operate. The maximum length of rug as currently set up is about 230 cm. It would also be an easy job to remove this adaptation (the verticals are simply screwed to the main frame of the loom) and revert to a more normal, cloth weaving loom.

Also included with the loom is:

A sturdy adjustable seat/bench, 90 cm long. 8 bars and sufficient heddles to add another 4 shafts. 7 additional reeds, gauges: 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 of various lengths. About 4kgs top quality linen warp thread wound onto usable medium sized cones. A quantity of rug wool in various colours. A rather crude, but functional, box to hold cones of warp thread to facilitate sectional warping and winding yarn onto shuttles.

Buyer collects (quite a large vehicle required). I can email more photos to potential purchasers, if that would be helpful. It is, however quite difficult to take good photographs as the room it is in is not very large.

Current location of the loom: Ealing, London W7.

6. Lillstina Floor Loom

Lillstina Four Shaft Floor Loom with six pedals.  100 cm weaving width.  A lot of loom in a (relatively) small footprint! (127cm x 93cm x 108cm, W x D x H). Lovely, sturdy construction and can take very high tension due to the unusual warp path.

Folds slightly with work on to 70 cm deep and can easily be folded completely flat when not in use. More photos available, including folded configuration - please ask!

Full Texsolv tie up and loads of heddles - around 180 per shaft, mixed Texsolv and string.  Original instruction leaflet. No reeds included.

Buyer collects  (Willingham, Cambridgeshire; CB24)

Original Lillstina weaving stool (adjustable) also available - £50

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7. Glimakra 10 Shaft Countermarch Floor Loom

120 cm weaving width. Includes all assembly instructions. Warping pegs. Bench,shuttles threading hooks and fish ,one reed and yarns. Plus a few get started books...

Very good condition

Buyer collects from Dorset

8. Louet Spring 12 Shaft Floor Loom

10. 12 shaft "John A Thurin” Countermarch Loom

Beautiful "John A. Thulin" countermarch weaving loom, with 12 shafts. 

This loom is a typical Swedish countermarch loom, very similar to the Glimakra ideal. It was made in Sweden and the hard Swedish pine wood is in great condition. 

It has 12 shafts, and 12 pedals. It has a 90cm weaving width and is roughly 1.2 metres deep, and 1.2 metres wide. It comes with all lams, pedals, shaft bars, a reed, associated warping sticks, and string heddles. 

The beater is strong, and the loom is easy to take down and put back together due to its "peg" construction system. 

It currently does not have texsolv tie up, however I am able to convert it to texsolv for you if you require for extra.

Collection only from Cambridge

11. Toika 150cm 8 shaft Counterbalance loom

12. Glimakra Eight Shaft Floor Loom

14. Four Shaft Floor Loom

My mother bought this loom from a woman in Bristol who had had it made. It is 5’9” high and 4’9” wide. There are 6 pedals beneath. The frame still bears the chalk marks from its assembly and so should be reasonably simple to disassemble for transportation. The loom also has a stool.

The loom has probably not been used for at least ten years and has been kept in a weatherproof but cold workroom. The frame looks like pine which is in good condition but some of the lighter wood has suffered from worm. It all still seems structurally sound, but would benefit from precautionary treatment.

It is being sold as part of my mother’s estate. She thought it was worth £200, but I am open to lower offers as long as the buyer collects and dismantles. There is also a quantity of other equipment and a quantity of yarns and books which I am happy to add in.

Buyer collects from North Somerset.

16. Eight Shaft Floor Loom

8 Shaft floor loom.

Aprox 1 meter cloth width, it's restored to working order (include three reeds). All new texsolv threading.

(Currently in France, shipping can be organised)

17. Leclerc Four Shaft Folding Floor Loom

Leclerc four shaft, six pedal folding floor loom in excellent condition.   Complete with  reed, shuttles and various accessories.  Collection only from Winchester, Hants.

18. 12 Shaft Ulla Cyrus Countermarch Floor Loom

23. Leclerc 4 Shaft Artisat 36" Floor Loom

Leclerc 4 Shaft Artisat 36" Floor Loom
Excellent condition, very compact folding to a depth of 14" with warp on.  Sale includes 7 Shuttles, 1 Reed, Heddles, large amount of Spacers and an assortment of Stick Shuttles, plus many other items of equipment.
Also included are 19 excellent condition weaving books and an assortment of weaving magazines.
Please phone for more details and photos,
Collection only from South West Dorset Area.

DOBBY LOOM LAGS FOR SALE

155 x hard wood dobby loom lags for 16 shafts,  upper surface measures 350 mm tip to tip top by 17 mm wide
underside measures 300mm tip to tip by 8 mm wide,  sloping side of lag measure 13 mm
centre of hole 1 to centre of hole 16 measures 255 mm,  centre to centre of each hole measures 19mm
a sample lag can be posted.

DL3. Louet Megado Electronic CompuDobby

Louet Megado 70cm 16 shaft Electronic CompuDobby Loom.  This Megado loom is just two years old. We are moving house and down sizing and so my loom must be downsized too ! The weaving width is 70cm and it has 16 shafts. Each shaft has extra heddles added. There is a second back beam included and also the adjustable weaving bench. The electronic dobby works from the computer using weaving software. I use Proweave but it is compatible with Fibreworks, Weaveit etc. To buy this configuration new at the moment would cost £8500.  I live in south west Scotland close to Lockerbie and just 4 miles from the main M74. If you would like to know more please contact me by phone or email.

DL1. 1950’s George Wood 16-shaft dobby loom (with fly shuttle)

1950’s George Wood 16-shaft dobby loom (with fly shuttle) - weaving width of 0.5 metres

Height – approx 2.5 metres

Width – approx. 1.65 metres

Depth – approx 1.7 metres with the floor beam extending a further 0.6 metres.

Warping Mill also included.

In great condition.

Collect from Oxfordshire

DL4. Rare 24 peg Dobby Loom

Rare, 24 peg Dobby loom. Ex. Welsh woolen mill?  Single treddle. 3 box, drop fly shuttle.
Stands apx. 6'6" square and apx. 8' tall.  Buyer to dismantle and collect from Watton, Norfolk.

DL21. George Wood Loom Frame

36" with 3 box fly shuttle, 16 shaft Robert Hall mechanical dobby head and quantity of industrial shafts - needs some DIY skills to restore shuttle boxes and adjust dobby and assemble as a working loom - only £450 - could help assemble at reasonable rate(£80/day+ travel) within 50 of mile radius of mid wales.

TL1. Varpapuu Tapestry Floor Loom

Varpapu Tapestry floor Loom ht180cm depth 58cm width 1.37cm    good condition 2 shaft Finnish loom .can be dismantled as joints labelled,includes 1m warping square
buyer collects from north devon 

TL2. Frame Loom

This is a beautiful frame loom in solid maple, extremely strong, which can be used for rugs or tapestry. It has inlaid marks at intervals of one inch and four inches on both beams; and the top beam adjusts easily to control tension. It is 38 inches wide, 60 inches high and available in North London.