It Came!
This big old semi pulled up in front of my house, stopping traffic right as school was getting out, to deliver my very own brand new Glimakra Standard loom. It was all just very exciting!
It came in eight boxes and weighed 340lbs! My daughter helped me unload it off the pallet and carry all the boxes into the living room. That was fun!
Fortunately, the boxes were numbered, so I opened the first couple and started to organize the parts.
Here is the left side all assembled.
My friend used her arms like an octopus to hold up the beams while I slid the right side of the loom into place for the frame to come together. We ended up having to do that twice. Oops.
It was huge! Which was fun!
Then I realized Glimakra accidentally sent me a horizontal countermarche system instead of the vertical one I had asked for. That was less fun.
While I waited for the exchange of parts, Rich helped me to start to build a trapeze like the one I saw when I visited the Vavstuga weaving school. The status of the loom moved back to fun!
I also lashed my warping board to the side of the loom and wound the first warp for it - silk and merino. Iām curious to see what that becomes.