Myrehed Shaft Drawloom

The shaft drawloom creates repeating block patterns; the number of blocks depends on the number of pattern shafts. Behind the front shafts of the loom (the shafts that weave the structure), a second harness holds the pattern shafts. Wooden handles for raising the pattern shafts are placed above the beater, in front of the weaver. These handles are attached to cords that go over the top of the drawloom frame, or bridge. When the handles are pulled, shafts in the second harness rise to make a pattern shed. The front harness can have as many as ten shafts, the pattern harness as many as 50 (for 50 blocks!). You can read about weaving damask and opphämta (a supplementary-weft structure) in Lillemor Johansson’s Damask and Opphämta.

200 weights included.

Heddles sold separately.

Loom Extension Required.