DIY Looms
Loom link
Loom ideas (playlist)
Facebook group: DIY Loom and Wheel Building
Books
- Building craft equipment by A. Jay and Carol Abrams
Reeds
Owning both 8-dent and 10-dent reeds will handle 90 percent of weaving projects, but if you love fine yarns, it’s nice to also have a 12-dent reed. If you are a color/texture weaver, you‘ll want a 5- or 6-dent reed to accommodate chunky, textured yarns. Reeds can be interchanged on looms of similar size. I have 8-, 10-, and 12-dent reeds that work on both of my floor looms. Stainless steel reeds are more expensive, but they won’t rust like their carbon steel counterparts can in humid environments.
Frame Loom
- Frame loom (Instructables)
- Laser cut 7x7 frame loom, comb, stand, needle, shuttle
- Weaving Loom laser cut files
- Frame loom with hacksaw notches and rotating heddle
Spruce & Linen Flat Pack Frame Loom (for reference)
Parts
- Stainless steel binding barrels, slotted, 1/2" to 5/8" material thickness, $17
Rigid Heddle Loom
- Rigid-Heddle Loom (Thingiverse)
- Laser cut rigid heddle (Instructables)
- Another Laser cut rigid heddle (Instructables)
- DF Loom - simple flexible rigid heddle loom (Instructables)
- DIY Rigid Heddle
- Open Hardware Loom
Cricket Rigid Heddle for reference
Cricket Quartet: Rigid Heddle converted to 4-shaft
Table Loom
- My 8 shaft Loom
- DIY 8-shaft Table Loom build
- 1944 Popular Science Table Loom build page 150
- Tabletop Loom plans (plan download)
- Schact Table Loom assembly (for reference)
- 3D printed table loom: (files not free)
- Open source foldable 4-shaft loom
Inkle Loom
- Mini Inkle Loom, 3D printable
- Inkle loom (Instructables)
- Discover and build an inkle loom (Instructables)
- Inkle loom from Ikea parts (Instructables)
Jacquard Loom
Tools
- Reed Threading Hook
- Sett template