My wife asked for a yarn loom on Etsy. It looked pretty simple, so I offered to make it for her before a trip so she’d have an extra thing to work on while I was gone.
She wanted to buy one of these: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/193541289/weaving-loom-and-tool-kit-small-save-10
While they look quite nice, and for someone without tools/means I think its a good deal, it certainly seemed expensive to me. Plus the whole shipping from Australia kinda sucks…
So I designed one myself (Fusion360 drawing here):
I used some cedar that I had extra from another project; turns out cedar is much too weak for those little knotches. I was going to make this out of some maple, but that would have cost me about $10-15 in wood; and we fully expect that I’ll need to build a larger one after she learns the basics of weaving.
Included in the Fusion360 drawing is a lasercut pattern I used to overlay on top of the knotches.
The final product can be seen here:
I could have lasercut the screw holes, and that would have saved me a lot of trouble, I ended up drilling too quickly through them and cracked them. You can see my ‘fixes’ for that, but this should work for the first steps of learning.
Cheers!
