Does anyone have a Loom?

[Thunderbolt]

If you don't mind a question or two..

I've though a lot about weaving myself, but I'm concerned about the quality. No one has been able to show me the differences in home-woven and mill-woven. Can anyone give some insight?

I have a sample of cloth off an old peddle loom from Scotland and it would make a solid kilt, pretty heavy and a bit rough, but it would work fine.

Also, if I was looking to make kilt-quality cloth, is it very hard? How about finding good worsted yarn? What would I expect to pay for a good loom that could make that cloth?

Sorry for all the questions. PM me if you don't want to respond here...

Thanks!

T.

[Bugbear]

It can be difficult to keep the selvage edge, hope I spelled that right, streight. Also it would take a bit of practice to get the feel for making your wep evenly tight. It could get horribly out of square. Having a very well built loom would help a lot. I have never worked with twill weaving, and never ever worked with a good loom, just home made rug type stuff, so hope you get someone else with a better answer.

If you don't mind a question or two..

I've though a lot about weaving myself, but I'm concerned about the quality. No one has been able to show me the differences in home-woven and mill-woven. Can anyone give some insight?

I have a sample of cloth off an old peddle loom from Scotland and it would make a solid kilt, pretty heavy and a bit rough, but it would work fine.

Also, if I was looking to make kilt-quality cloth, is it very hard? How about finding good worsted yarn? What would I expect to pay for a good loom that could make that cloth?

Sorry for all the questions. PM me if you don't want to respond here...

Thanks!

T.

[Barb T]

It can be difficult to keep the selvage edge, hope I spelled that right, streight. Also it would take a bit of practice to get the feel for making your wep evenly tight. It could get horribly out of square. Having a very well built loom would help a lot. I have never worked with twill weaving, and never ever worked with a good loom, just home made rug type stuff, so hope you get someone else with a better answer.

I wrote up my take on this awhile back in the following thread:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/h...highlight=loom

and here

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/w...hlight=weaving

It is almost impossible to hand weave the hard tartan that you can buy commercially for kilting. Tartan can be woven on a hand loom, but it will not likely have the "hand" of commercially woven tartan.

Barb