Viking warp weighted loom

[freiman the minstrel]

I have a lady in my wife's household that has a spinning problem, and I thought that a loom might make a good birthday gift.

Does anybody know where I can find plans for, or just good pictures of, a Viking warp-weighted loom?

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[losthelm]

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/wwloom.html
http://www.housebarra.com/EP/ep02/20wwl.html
http://forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Warp/WARP.HTML

For someone just starting out glimakra has a very nice band loom that works very well for winingas about $400 in the states probibly cheaper in europe you can probibly build one if you can find plans.
Depending on how bad the spinning problem is a book on lucet, or nalbinding for everone else in the household may also be appropriate.

[Thomas Powers]

So you want to add a weaving problem to their spinning problem----YOU FIEND!

[losthelm]

No he wants something besides socks and grandmama sweaters.

[Thomas Powers]

So who else remembers that Avengers episode: "What are they doing?" "They're knitting a bungalow."

[Cap'n Atli]

The Warp Weighted Loom (Studies in the History and Technology of an Ancient Implement) by Marta Hoffmann; C 1974The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities; ISBN 82-00-08094-3

Some of our LSCo folk have them; I've started a couple, but gotten side-tracked over the past 40 years. Alas, none in my family weave.

[Ottar]

The videos here have a ton of information, even if I can't understand a single word. Being able to watch the entire process is kinda nice.
http://www.howtohistory.com/2011/01/the ... hted-loom/

[SvenskaFlicka]

I actually have that little Glimakra band loom for sale on my website! http://www.spindleshuttleandneedle.com/glbalo.html

Warp-weighted looms are fun and not that difficult to make.

Another craft she may want to try would be nalbinding or sprang. Both work well with hand-spun yarn and produce nice items.