It’s actually surprisingly comfortable. There’s a bench so your feet are free to work the treadles, and the suspenders allow you to keep your neck straight rather than bent down. I’m a little tall for this loom, but it’s really not too bad.

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I’ve been weaving for a while and I’m no longer interested in just recreating the structures in historic drafts. I want to understand how those drafts were woven by the people who put pen to paper two centuries ago, and for me, the best way to do that is to do it the way they did, as best I can.

The cloth is “A Beautiful 5 Shaft Diaper Draft,” recorded by Silas Burton in Fairfield, Connecticut, August 29, 1807.

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Using passing comments from a few 19th-century sources, we discovered one way that weavers worked with them @newburyschoolofweaving.org It’s too much to write about here, but you can read all about it in the school’s newsletter from August, 2024, “A Mystery Unraveled.” It works like a charm.