A few weeks back I went to a folk museum and got to see a lady setting up a manual loom to weave some cloth for a solid color garment. The time involved was incredible. She said the setup is the longest most tedious part of the entire process. To make this more economical, they have to setup the loom to be ready to weave several different projects one right after the other. This means that my Fraser Hunting tartan is loaded on to a loom after a order of MacDonald Dress and just before an order of Wallace. Then the loom can run from one order right into the next. Each string from the previous order is manually tied to a string in the following order and then wound around a spool (magazine) to be weaved as the spool is undone. I imagine this same manual process still continues today even though the shuttle is automated. There is still no way to simplify the time consuming and critical part of the setup.