My Floor Loom

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May 2017

 First wrap I made with my weaving club at school. My students are awesome Thank you Bridget E Kelly for the loom! We are loving it!

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My friend posted this photo on her FB wall.  I had just given her my 4 harness floor loom which I had been hauling around with me since 1982. I bought the loom when I first started making a decent salary. My rent cost $75/month and the loom cost $300.  That was a lot of money for me.  It came as a kit and I tried to put it together myself.  But I had one wheel going clockwise when it should have been going counterclockwise and I couldn't figure out where the issue was.  I had a friend help me and he couldn't get it either.  So it sat there in my bedroom, skirts and blouses draped over it.

Then it came to Jenkintown with me in 1984.  And when I went back to graduate school, it hung in the corner of my parents' garage. I put in in my guest bedroom when I moved to Stroudsburg in 1988.  And when I moved to Springfield in 1999, it was in my library. There was absolutely no room for it when I moved to my small, two bedroom house in Maryland in 2012 so I stuffed it with all of my other belongs in the shed in the back yard.

But when I decided, in 2017, to completely downsize and move in to an 800 sq foot apartment, I really had to do something.  This clothing hanger was not coming with me with this move.

So I mentioned it to my friend Jill who is the head of a school for kids with developmental delays. She wanted it.  And she found someone to take the whole thing apart and rebuild it to its working condition. She took weaving lessons and now the loom sits in the school's  Time Out Room.  When a kid is frustrated and about to explode, he goes in there and weaves until he calms down. And when enough kids have added to the piece to make a shawl, it is finished off and added to the pile of items auctioned off at their yearly fundraising event. 

At last, the loom has found a good home.