Category: Louet Megado

As adults we think we should not make mistakes – that everything we turn our hand to should be ‘perfect’ the first go round. There is a hard lesson in there.  Because whenever we try something new, something different, there is a high probability that not all will go smoothly.  That our results won’t be…

One of the most valuable things a teacher can do is fail.  Failure is a wonderful reminder of how it feels to experience ‘beginner mind’.  When things don’t go right, right from the get-go, you are forced to remember another time, another place, when you had to think through a problem and find a solution.…

Since I have been open about the challenges I have been having becoming friends with the Megado, I want to be completely clear about one thing.  The customer service I have been getting from Dave at Louet has been stellar. Part of the challenge is changing to a loom so very different from the AVL…

Whew. Even though I’ve been weaving with a computer assisted dobby for ages (early 1990s?) changing looms meant changing dobby and changing how that dobby connects with my computer. I love the elegance of Fiberworks, have been using it since the beginning to drive the AVL and really wanted to be able to use Fiberworks…

We continue on our progress to do the studio re-organization and get the Megado up and running. I finally felt able to work my way through the manual for the computer dobby set up.  It was a bit confusing because they provide so many different formats in order to run the loom.  Which is great,…

A bout of insomnia last night left me with a brain that was fizzing, not letting me sleep.  Instead of beating myself up about long past things, I set about thinking of how I wanted the studio set up.  I twisted and turned things around and around again, trying to think how best to utilize…

The photo is of a 32 shaft version but I decided to stick with 16.  I’ve been weaving with 16 shafts since 1982 when I got the AVL, and while there are times when more would be nice, decided that with elderly eye sight I probably couldn’t see to accurately thread those last 16 shafts. …

evidence of wear on the breast beam just under the threading/reed hook “Things as imagined, things as they are, things as used, and things as discarded all have their own emotional resonance which weave and interplay with the others to form a complex embodiment of feeling in materiality†Hillary Davidson The Leclerc Fanny was ‘rescued’…