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mudwerks

(via What’s Your Greatest Fear? Long Island Women Respond, 1973 - Flashbak)

marciaillust

curious. anyway,

crow-crafting

Hi, quick question!

What are these?

They came with my loom (second hand), but no instructions or guide.

I have a countermarch loom, if that helps.

Thanks!

batbetbitbotbut

Baffling! Any chance it could be part of an aid for beaming the warp? Found these examples of what I mean under the search "loom tensioning system" - but none of them are as long as your devices

QUICK EDITING MYSELF: Do you have 8 shafts? There are eight slots, does the spacing match up for that? Something to put below the castle to affect the minimum height of the shafts??? But I don't know what the purpose of such a device would be

timetogoon

They’re shaft holders! Floor looms and countermarche looms where I’m from typically habe free hanging shafts. So you use the shaft holders to get all the shafts stable and to the same height when threading the heddles. Typically that is not done at the height the shafts would be at for weaving, but at a more ergonomic height.

With my loom as an example (it hast four shafts in that picture, but has space for up to 8): once most of the warp is on the back beam and the lease sticks have been inserted, I would take out the whole dent holder (not the correct term - the big wooden rectangle in the front with the reed - Weblade in German) and then bring the shafts forward by moving the rectangle they are attached to at the top. And then use the shaft holder to bring them to a comfortable height and to keep them steady for threading the heddles.

Hope that was helpful, sorry about my lack of weaving vocabulary in English. I am very much learning in German.

tigerstale

We should probably try to summon @tiuhtaviuhta to properly explain a countermarch loom.

tiuhtaviuhta

@timetogoon is correct, these are shaft holders for 8 shafts! And funnily enough, these aren't commonly used in Finland so this is the first time i've seen them.

I can see how they would be useful when you're setting your levers and shafts for the first time since they tend to be wiggly without a warp.

I'd be interested in the origins of your loom to figure out where this tool is more common.

#karuliinan kangaspuut

apocalypseswhore

gatekeeping my art by not making any

redlipstickresurrected

Olivier Neuray (Belgian, b. 1962, Brussels, Belgium) - L'alcôve (The Alcove), Etching, Aquatint on Zinc on Arches Velin BFK Rives

sleepnoises

boyfriend's quail photos have reached perhaps a lifetime peak today

gottaseesomeart

With every stitch, Irene Saputra—also known as Nengiren—brings a new figure to life. Yet at the same time, both her embroidery practice and the characters she creates reflect her own lived journey. The Indonesian artist crafts grids of Nona Kecil (Indonesian for “little lady”), each iteration adorned with different garments and levels of complexity and vibrancy. “The evolution of Nona Kecil mirrors the shifts in my life,” Saputra says, in an interview with Hi-Fructose Magazine. “While she began as a small, neat, and playful figure, over time she has grown with me. Today, Nona Kecil continues to grow, shaped by my memories, roles, and understanding of womanhood, care, and identity. She has become a form that can hold emotion, reflection, and the subtle changes in how I see myself and my world.”

uglyfruit

cadaverkeys

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

feyosha

pnwgardenbuddiesneoly

#joka maataan viljelee huolella

modelsof-color

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

despazito

ink-the-artist

"i hope death is like being carried to your bedroom when you were a child & fell asleep on the couch during a family party. i hope you can hear the laughter from the next room"

bobbole

Keith Haring, Altarpiece: The Life of Christ

Man, search engines really are completely useless at tracking down like 99% of industrial design history, especially for smaller countries.

So many commonly used industry terms just aren't searchable, any specific commercial products from different eras even less so.

Honestly if you want any specifics about say, industrial pattern design in Finland between 1960-1995, your only hope is to stumble upon a specific ass museum with a budged counted in pennies and let them shower you with all the available info on earth.

The thing is, no commercial mill is concerned with public archives. There is no incentive to make public records about who did what when. Archives are useless if they're not maintained and organized.

Just, the scope of things in this world that are unknowable unless you have right access is staggering to me. We need to stop pretending that all there is to know about everything is online. You don't even know what you don't know!

#luckily I work in one such museum #blorbo from my archives