Yes please. I like loom comparisons. They give a lot of info that helps a person figure out what they want.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks for your feedback 😊

Beautiful!! I look forward to seeing all the wonderful things that you weave on it.

if people have an opportunity to do a root cellar, they might be able to incorporate access to tie up the pedals, kind of like a drive over garage at an oil change shop. Maybe a split level in the basement with guide side rails to climb into that space. Thanks for showing floor loom, find it interesting families in Europe used to have these set up part of the year and then taken down when not in use. Much attention to fabric quality : )

@KellyCasanova

Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine setting it up and taking it apart once a year!

INCREDIBLE !! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

That's so exciting. Imagine a loom you can stand inside!! I can't wait to see all the new explorations you embark upon.

Thank you for sharing your joy!!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching ❤️

I wanted a countermarche loom but decided the tie-up would be too problematic for my bad back, so decided on a Louet David. Keep us updated on your progress with the sectional warp, flying shuttle and different ways to adjust to tying-up your countermarche as you work on those. A comparison to the David would be fun to watch when you have time.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

I think you made a wise decision in the David, it is incredibly easy to tie up in comparison to this loom.

@lizkimber

2 жыл бұрын

There is a contraption you can get called the 20+ which pulls cords through to the back and you have a board where you do something and it effectively does the tie up for you. So that could be worth a look into before you dismiss your countermarch dreams.

Congratulations! How exciting!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Yes please, Kelly. I would like a comparison between Countermarch and your Louet. Also to see the flying shuttle in situ / action. I am looking for a 10+ shaft loom so comparisons would help me choose.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, I'll keep that in mind for future videos 😉

This was so interesting, fascinating! Here I sit still trying to set up my Baby Wolf Loom and look at you with this large, complex piece of weaving! Loved the video, loom demonstration and piece of fabric.

Beautiful loom! Really enjoyed watching this!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Diane!

Wow!!! Beautiful 💖💖💖

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I do love it 😀

Congratulations! What a fun new project. This would keep me busy for years and years! I’m excited to see what you can do with it.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I hope to be weaving for the rest of my life on this loom, we'll see how the tie up treats me as I get older though 😉

😲 WOW! So beautiful. Congratulations. 🎉 That is incredible! A weavers dream loom!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀

Congratulations hope all goes well and you have a lot of fun.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Suzanne!

Congratulations! 🎉🎊 What a beautiful loom. I can’t wait to see what you learn/make on it! 😍

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Deb!

congratulations Kelly, a fantastic purchase, it is great and with the advantage of being more spacious for warping, I mean your space to move behind or even under the loom, I love it!!! 🥰

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! 😊

WOW! That's great Kelly. Nice little overview,be great to see your creations on this one .

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kate 😊

Now I know what Jacks are! Very enjoyable viewing for someone who knows nothing about floor looms, thanks Kelly. I would also enjoy the comparison video.

I would love to see more videos about your new loom!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Great, thank you!

Congratulations on your new loom.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

What an interesting loom. It's fascinating how it works. I hope you have a blast with it.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lori, I'm really enjoying it 😊

Thank you! I so enjoyed this casual overview!

@KellyCasanova

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Kelly. Appreciate this video! I’m busy assembling my loom - same make as yours except it’s 8 shaft and 10 treadle. I’ll watch the videos from Claire to help in setup as well.

@KellyCasanova

8 ай бұрын

That's exciting for me to have a loom buddy, I haven't come across many weavers who have the same one 😀

love to see the comparison video, its a beautiful big loom

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kim! 😊

Great video, Kelly! And I, too, have an "enabling" husband who makes everything happen so I can weave. He just built me an adjustable bench for my David III. Have fun with your new-to-you-loom! 😀

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Congratulations! It’s gorgeous . Lee’s surrender is just beautiful. Looking forward to seeing more weaving on this loom. Would like a comparison of your two floor looms with pros and cons.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rosetta 😊

…..that I should live long enough to get to that level of weaving!!!!! Congratulations, so happy 4 u. So enjoy your videos.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Val ❤️

From Tucson Arizona USA lovely presentation thank you, so much I learned a lot.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 😊

This was very interesting. Thank you for sharing.!!!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Congratulations on your new CM loom, I hope you have many enjoyable years weaving on her. I've just purchased a Glimakra Julia CM loom here in the UK and had to wait 3.5 months for it to arrive in the country. I was interested to try the CM system but the space I have available is very small and so needed a loom that didn't take up more space than my 32" rigid heddle loom and the Julia was perfect for me in that respect. Look forward to seeing more videos on your new loom.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on your purchase Maureen, a pity you have to wait, but anyone who orders a new loom is in the same boat at the moment, so you're not alone.

What a really interesting overview, Kelly, and such nice filming! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. In time, perhaps we can see how a flying shuttle works once you've got more used to your big floor loom. I'm sure you're going to have lots of fun with it - congratulations!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew 😊

Beautiful!! I am new to looming after inheriting a floor loom and have loved watching your videos! I would love to learn the differences between your looms! Thank you and enjoy!!😊

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats on your loom! 😊

I would love to hear a comparison of a modern floor loom to an older floor loom. I used to have a Glimakra Counter Marche but didn’t have room for it so I sold it and got a a much smaller floor loom. Perhaps one day I’ll have room for one, but I’d love to hear the pros and cons and am looking forward to seeing all you do with this new loom.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Linda, which smaller floor loom do you have now?

@lindaspencer6547

2 жыл бұрын

Kelly, I have Schacht Mighty Wolf. I’m really enjoying it, but share your dream of wide blankets. Hope you love your new loom b

You have a wonderful way of speaking. I thoroughly enjoyed your chatting/ blogging style.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

That is so kind of you, thank you ❤️

Hi😍 just a tip when you tid up the threaddles you fix the cord unter the threaddles and pulled the thread thru the lamp and put the split in there it's much faster... If you want more tips and tricks I would love to help you😍 I have been a cm weaver for 15 years and can send you pictures 😍

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

I will add my thanks for sharing your learning journey with your beautiful countermarche loom. A comparison video would be much appreciated along with follow up on the treadle challenge and the flying shuttle. Your videos are a pleasure!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Some viewers have already given me ideas for a different treadle tie up method which is very helpful 😊

What a beautiful loom and a great find for you Kelly! I’ll be interested to hear more about how you like it and the comparison with your Louet. I want to invest in a loom before I retire and I’m thinking I want a CM loom, but don’t understand enough about the differences and have been looking for really good comparison info. Your new weaving project is gorgeous, thank you for sharing!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like it would be the perfect video for you then! 😀

Congratulations on your new acquisition. I would also very much appreciate a comparison video of your David loom and this one. My new loom is still in the making but should be available in the next few months, so all the information I can gather is most welcome.

@KellyCasanova

Жыл бұрын

Here is the comparison video - kzread.info/dash/bejne/f3yns5SPcs_Uqrg.html

Great video! I have had 3 Glimakra's (a Standard, an Ideal, and a Julia), and have always wondered how a Varpapuu compared and differred. Very minor differences, judging by your video. Lovely Lee's Surrender, BTW! If no one has told you by this point, when (not if; we have all done it) you forget the knee beam, there's an easy fix. Assuming that your knee beam is easily removable as is the case on a Glimakra. Siimply loosen your tension a bit, and slide your knee beam off the loom. Now bring it to the front of your weaving, under the warp, and take the tension completely off (a second person at the brake can be helpful here, but not necessary), and pushing the warp back toward the loom with the knee beam, re-install it as before. Your warp now goes over it as it should!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rebecca, a couple of people have mentioned moving the knee beam and I did it yesterday - worked perfectly! 😀

My 1918 Cherokee barn loom is very similar to yours except she only has 1 lam. No one around here has ever seen like it. She has the same jack system with the "Y" cord down the center, rear attached/front floating treadles, 8 shaft/10 treadles....but, only 1 lam for each shaft. Vivian Ann 100% off grid in northeast Tennessee

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Is it heavy to treadle?

I see you already got advice about the knee beam. I have forgotten about it more than once, and am glad it’s such an easy fix! If you are on Ravelry there are some great weaving groups there. There is a lot of great info in both the Warped Weavers group and the Glimakra group. (While your loom is a different brand it is similar enough that you will find a lot of help there.) It is really easy to turn your treadle tie ups upside down, and have your fixed point under the treadles and your tie up (where you might need to adjust) on top of the lamms. You can even use a 10mm straight knitting needle to hold all of your tie up cords under the treadles, which means you can start setting up your cords away from the loom. I also suggest putting the treadles up on blocks (or a pile of books, etc) at the height you want them, then tying them up using that as your height guide. It’s helped me so much to get things set up at the height I want, and to keep things orderly as I go. I can’t wait to see all the beautiful things you make on the new loom!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic tips, thank you! ❤️

Really enjoyed your video. Just bought a Glimarka loom so very interested in the other videos you mentioned but cant seem to find them in the comments.

@KellyCasanova

11 ай бұрын

Is this the one you're looking for? I have it linked underneath the video - kzread.infovideos

I think Lee's Surrender would make a beautiful wall hanging! If you do get to a really wide piece and don't have the flying shuttle set up perhaps you can sit on one side, have someone on the other side and just send the shuttle back and forth to each other for the new sport of "tandem weaving"! 😃

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen them do that on the really big looms, weaving blankets at mills. I am keen to try out that flying shuttle though 😉

Hi Kelly, you can take out the support beam and slip it under your cloth an slide it back. You have to loosen your tension a bit.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, somebody else had advised me to do this and I did it today - worked beautifully 😀

Again, Hi Kelly, Andrew once more! Ok here goes my adventure with building my counter-march 4 shaft loom, I had dreamed about a counter-march loom for almost 15 years, and working running around after my mother for 8 years. So I decided to build it, at a size I had within my simple 1 bedroom unit, !0x12 foot square, so I decided on 22in width, small but effective for myself, I can sew either by hand or use my deadly treadly,1918. I got the wood, downloaded as many plans and drawings it wasn't funny, got a full size saw, then a full size drill, nuts,bolts and then finding the time to draw the plans, then cutting the timber. so after 2008-2011 I got time and cut the wood, setting the project in motion , it took a week to cut and set aside, after another year I got time to put it together, then let the nightmare begin. the heddles all made by hand 250x4=1000 all in lien and learning to, to attach and tie, simple. then the jacks, 8 of them, then harness for the horses, 4 off them no 8 of them, then the center strings, making sure they are the same length, the strings to the jacks under the loom, simple yes? no!!, it was confusion abound for days, and one day it was done (4 days later). Then I decide after understanding how, when, and why each piece fit together, the movement of the loom, totally amazed me how simple it was,( YES!!!!) I had done it, after almost 3 years I had a counter-march loom in my home. Now the decision of what to do as my first project, now the problem, Yes I've got Margret Porter-Davidson's book copy of the 3rd printing, and there was one pattern I had to have, done ass a sampler, yes it was Lee's surrender! Do we all do it when we get the loom of our dreams, the first project we do is lee's surrender! I could not wait so I warped my threads threaded the loom with sewing cotton and got my 120 lien thread in royal blue and sat on my loom for another 22 days for my most beautiful sampler, Dose life get any better then this, well because I weave cotton/silk/ aswel as lien, fingering weight wool, I have sheeting/toweling and dress fabric's and it was worth it to wait and build what I need, the next project is my big wheel spinet, I've got most of what i need to start. Yes I still work 5 days perweek, enjoying this incredible life!

@KellyCasanova

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I could not even begin to contemplate building my own loom, that is very, very impressive!

If you loosen your warp you can take the knee beam off and put it in and so it is correct

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, someone mentioned this in the comments, I'm going to try it 😀

I love my glamakra countermarch

Greetings. I have made the same mistake on my countermarch, that is forgetting to bring the warp over the knee beam. I believe you can simply lift that beam out, loosen your tension and then slip the beam under the warp and put the beam back in place and retention. That is all there is to it! So simple. I have a Glimaka but not sure what yours is. Hope this helps. Also, if you do have as Glimaka make sure to put the locking pin rods in the horizontal jacks so they stay level when trying up.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Chris, I am going to try that! And yes, I do have locking pins for the jacks and used them to tie up 👍

@chrisbianco445

2 жыл бұрын

@@KellyCasanova good luck! You have have a beautiful loom there! 👍

I don’t know if you have a basement under your studio, but having a trap door underneath the treadles might help you tie them. Likewise, building a platform for the loom to rest on, with the aforementioned trap door might be useful. You’d need a high ceiling and some way of making sure no one could fall off the platform…

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

No, there is no basement. Some other viewers have given me good ideas on tying from the bottom of the treadles up, rather than the other way around, which seems like a good idea to try.

Id be very interested in a comparison of your two looms.

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks!

Hi Kelly, I enjoyed your talk on your new loom. Could you show how you've tied up your lamms please? Are they attached on one side to a metal bar or just floating? Thank you, Deanna

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, they're attached on one side with a metal rod. I will try to do another video that shows the set up a bit more clearly.

@deannahatchman8225

2 жыл бұрын

@@KellyCasanova Thank you, I look forward to your videos. I've recently purchased a second hand Glimakra style double back beam loom, made in NZ. It's been a steep learning curve. Thank goodness for you and Google. Regards, Deanna 🙂

If this is like its friends you can have one long long cord per hole which goes from upper lam through lower lam to treddle. You need never remove it. You just move a peg to determine upper or lower being the one that moves. But have some sympathy my 16 shaft needs 256 cords :) Btw that “support beam” is the knee beam A lot of the suggestions actually say put your bench inside the loom and do the shaft threading and even reed threading at the back!

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

256 cords! 😩

@lizkimber

2 жыл бұрын

@@KellyCasanova yeah. Enough to make even chuck norris cry. That’s 512 pegs. 768 if you do the 1 cord method. That’s a lot of little plastic bits. I bought 400 but sadly really I need to buy more or something. What I think really has me is despite the cost of mine as it’s brand new. It arrives without enough things to use it. And. Its not just heddles. But no cords. No pegs. No beads or whatever other things you might have used before texsolv was a thing.

When you want to change out the reed - say changing a 10 dpi for a 12 dpi - do you remove the entire beater from the loom to do the swap?

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

The top of the beater does slide up (though mine is very stiff). I only have the one sized reed and it suits me fine so I don't imagine I will buy any more at this point.

abraço aqui de Curitiba, Brasil

Did the loom arrive already put together?

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

No, my husband and I put it together.

Did you by chance mount that tabby treadle upside down?

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

No, I checked and it's right side up. Thanks for the idea though 😊

Would love to know how many hours a day you spend weaving?

@KellyCasanova

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm, that is very difficult to answer. Most of the weaving I do these days is for making classes, I don't get much time for personal weaving. If I'm making a class (like I am right now) I may spend hours a day at the loom, other times I may not get to weave for a week while I'm busy working on other stuff, mostly at the computer.