Triangle Loom

I’ve been wanting to try weaving on a triangle frame loom ever since I saw one in use at the Denmark Sheepfest. Sometime between Labor Day and Sept. 10 I built two of them, thinking I could show Lee when she was visiting us. Of course I should have known better than to think I could show Lee anything she doesn’t know about weaving! She may or may not have used one herself, but she certainly had heard of them through her weaving guild.

At any rate, I started weaving on one about last Thursday night and did some more on it this past weekend. I’m using lopi left over from Charley’s icelandic sweater — not the best choice for this loom, as there’s a lot of friction pulling the yarn through the warp. It does look as though it’s working, though, and as though it’s going to make a reasonably compact fabric on this loom.

The light dawns! I finally see why there are twice as many nails between the two shorter edges of the triangle as along the hypotenuse. Each nail on the hypotenuse has a thread going up on each side of it, but each nail on the short sides has a thread only on the outside side.

I’m switching color a lot, hoping for something like a plaid. Guess I need another color.