Category: Louet Megado
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Loom Abuse
Wear and tear? Or Abuse? I weave. A lot. I have worn out a lot of loom parts over the years, first on the AVL, and now? The Megado. One time I posted to a group online asking about a ‘wear’ issue on my fairly new (at the time) Megado, and speculated if the…
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Loom Abuse
Wear and tear? Or Abuse? I weave. A lot. I have worn out a lot of loom parts over the years, first on the AVL, and now? The Megado. One time I posted to a group online asking about a ‘wear’ issue on my fairly new (at the time) Megado, and speculated if the…
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Loom Maintenance Update
the back plate of the dobby removed for inspection – the top edge of the plate is damaged, especially at shaft #7 (the plate is laying flat on the top of the loom – hook for shaft 7 is obviously higher than the rest of the hooks) the back plate of the dobby in…
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Shaft Envy
When I started weaving in 1975, most people had four shaft looms. Some few had 8 (this was in North America – Europeans had looms with more) but more than that was very rare. There were a few 12 and 16 shaft looms but they were not particularly common. What drew me to weaving was…
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New Draft
One of the advantages of having a computer assisted dobby loom is that you can design and file away complete treadling drafts for a project. This is my latest warp. I call it ‘lily pads’ for reasons which will become apparent once I get started weaving. I hope! But I thought it might be interesting…
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Carrot/Stick
I used to beam the AVL with a wound warp but wasn’t sure if I could make it work on the Megado. The warp is silk, fairly fine, and it’s for a proposed article for Handwoven. I have already had some…oopsies…with this project so I was foot dragging on getting it beamed. Not to mention…
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Carrot/Stick
I used to beam the AVL with a wound warp but wasn’t sure if I could make it work on the Megado. The warp is silk, fairly fine, and it’s for a proposed article for Handwoven. I have already had some…oopsies…with this project so I was foot dragging on getting it beamed. Not to mention…
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Planning
Now that I’m well over the half way mark on test warp #3(?), my thoughts are turning to the next warp. In the stash reducing effort, I had planned some more tea towel warps in order to use up the fine single linen yarns that I accidentally (ahem) acquired. I used a little of this…
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Tweaking the Set Up
Little by little, the studio is taking shape. With the replacement of the AVL with the Megado, changing the old computer cabinet into a music storage cabinet, I needed something for the laptop to sit on. We jury-rigged something until Doug had time to fetch the table from the annex, but I asked if he…
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Next Test Warp
The Megado is definitely a different loom from the AVL. There were many things about the AVL that worked for me very well and beaming sectionally was one of them. The beam of preference was up high which meant I could stand and turn the crank, cut off and tape the section, then easily attach…