Category: AVL repairs

It’s been a bit of a slow motion scramble, but about all I can manage right now. Trying to shut a business down as you continue to run said business is a…challenge… Everything takes longer than expected.  Everything becomes more complicated than anticipated. Then something happens and you snow globe all your plans again because…

I wove on an AVL at the 1981 ANWG conference and – after reading Allen Fannin’s book Handloom Weaving Technology from cover to cover on the bus home – ordered this loom. It was more mechanized than the one I’d woven on – I was told I could order an auto-cloth advance and double box…

I wove on an AVL at the 1981 ANWG conference and – after reading Allen Fannin’s book Handloom Weaving Technology from cover to cover on the bus home – ordered this loom. It was more mechanized than the one I’d woven on – I was told I could order an auto-cloth advance and double box…

I wove on an AVL at the 1981 ANWG conference and – after reading Allen Fannin’s book Handloom Weaving Technology from cover to cover on the bus home – ordered this loom. It was more mechanized than the one I’d woven on – I was told I could order an auto-cloth advance and double box…

When I ordered my AVL in oh, 1981, a number of weavers informed me that I could no longer call my textiles hand woven.  But I do.  Because the loom does exactly nothing if I’m not there to make it happen. The thing with a loom with so many moving parts is that it will…

Surgical tools to fix… Cables wear out, yes, they do.   We invested in the correct size plastic coated airline cable, bought by the yard at a local wire rope supplier and the tool for cutting it/compressing the knurls.  The loop broke on shaft 14 so one end, dropping the shaft suddenly.  Fortunately the warp…