Category: fly shuttle
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Fly Shuttle – Four Boxes
Sally asked on Weavolution how a multiple box fly shuttle works. Sometimes you just have to see it to understand. When I added air assist a while ago, we also upgraded to four boxes instead of the original two. Eventually I found the four boxes too heavy to comfortably shift by hand so I asked…
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April Spools Day
Meg has challenged weavers to post photos of their spools/bobbins. basket tied to my bench holding shuttles and bobbins – which are mostly empty as I finished the spring green towels last night – my shuttles and bobbins are from Leclerc pirns for fly shuttle – I have an industrial pirn winder and fly shuttles/pirns So…
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Equipment Fail
with just the beginning of the 25% green Fox Fibre yarn showing at the top – click to biggify Yesterday the fly shuttle on the left hand side began to fail again. I wasn’t able to ‘throw’ from the left hand side at all with just half a yard left to weave of the white…
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Spring Flowers
A tiny, perfect little orchid bouquet delivered a week ago and still going strong Latest arrangement Plum shawl warp April is not the nicest month here, especially when winter has overstayed it’s welcome. The tulips in my front bed are barely above ground, buds still tightly furled. So it was especially nice to be gifted…
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Flying Shuttles
Two types of flying shuttle Industrial pirn winder Whenever my warps are wider than 30″ I turn to my trusty flying shuttles. When Allen Fannin was alive he often salvaged equipment from mills that were either upgrading or shutting down. Thus the Whitin pirn winder came my way, along with half a dozen shuttles and…
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Next Shawl Warp
Next shawl warp I had originally purchased this yarn – a blend of merino wool, bamboo and silk – to re-sell, but there were some problems with the shipment and I don’t feel comfortable offering it to others. 🙁 So now I have to figure out how to use it up myself. Once again I’m…
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Four Boxes
Someone emailed me today asking if the four box fly shuttle was really useful or if it was ‘overkill’ as her friends were advising her. 🙂 When I ordered the loom originally (1983) I ordered it with the double box fly shuttle. Over the years, I found the double box useful even though I didn’t…
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Headdresses
The warp for the headdresses is beamed. Generally I wouldn’t set up the AVL for such a short warp (5 yards including an ‘extra’ yard for sampling) but the warp is 32″ wide so I can use the fly shuttle on it. Notice I’ve offset the warp 4″ to the right to compensate for the…
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Headdresses
The warp for the headdresses is beamed. Generally I wouldn’t set up the AVL for such a short warp (5 yards including an ‘extra’ yard for sampling) but the warp is 32″ wide so I can use the fly shuttle on it. Notice I’ve offset the warp 4″ to the right to compensate for the…
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Headdresses
The warp for the headdresses is beamed. Generally I wouldn’t set up the AVL for such a short warp (5 yards including an ‘extra’ yard for sampling) but the warp is 32″ wide so I can use the fly shuttle on it. Notice I’ve offset the warp 4″ to the right to compensate for the…