What is the difference between a Countermarch and counterbalance looms?
The difference between the two loom types is in the way this happens. On a counterbalance loom, the shafts are connected to each other via pulleys or jacks above the shafts. On a countermarch loom, every treadle is connected to a lamm below the shafts.
Where are Glimakra looms made?
Oxberg Sweden
The Glimakra loom factory is located in Oxberg Sweden. It is a town known for many centuries for making beautiful and functional looms and reeds.
What is a Swedish loom?
Swedish looms have counterbalance or countermarch systems of moving shafts. Even some of the Swedish table looms are made with a counterbalance system. There have been jack looms introduced in Sweden, but they were in production only a very short time, as Swedish weavers did not like them.
How do you tie a Countermarch loom?
For a countermarch tie-up, you must tie every shaft to move (otherwise you’ll have threads in the middle of the shed that go neither up nor down) and you can’t ask any shaft to go both up and down. You can tie two treadles so that one of them moves one group of shafts and the other moves the rest, however.
What is a Lamm on a loom?
Lamm Horizontal wooden rods below the shafts that attach the treadles to the shafts. On countermarch looms like mine, there are two sets of lamms — upper lamms and lower lamms.
What is multiphase loom?
Multiphase Loom: The phase number of a loom is defined as the average number of shuttles or weft carriers inserting weft simultaneously.
How does a Drawloom work?
A drawloom is used to weave many different kinds of items and it is capable of weaving complex patterns. You can weave your name on a place mat, weave flowers on a wall hanging or weave images which can be designed as you would design a tapestry. The drawloom makes this possible by having two sets of shafts.
What is Swedish weaving?
Huck embroidery, sometimes called huck weaving or Swedish weaving, is a form of embroidery that blends a bit of surface embroidery with weaving. Its name comes from huck cloth, which is the most common material used for this style, and as its alternate name suggests, huck embroidery originated in Sweden.
What is a skeleton tie up?
A skeleton tie-up is one in which two (or even three) treadles are depressed together to achieve the shaft combination that needs to rise (or sink) for some or all of the sheds required by a particular draft.