(Note: The loom is now under contract.)
Yesterday I listed our Cranbrook loom for sale. She has a 72″ weaving width, 10 treadles, 8 harnesses, and a never used shaft switcher – all made from rock maple by Norwood in Fremont, Michigan. She’s in great shape, sans scratches on the steel beams. New, the loom itself sells for $7400. And the shaft switcher is no longer available. The Fremont woodworkers designed the shaft switcher. When Schacht purchased the rights to the Cranbrook, the shaft switcher disappeared.
The loom:
The shaft switcher (couldn’t get far enough away to get the whole piece in the photo):
The curve in the rails is an illusion from the photograph.
We are asking $5000 for both. They must be picked up in southern Vermont – the loom is too large to ship. Contact us at the studio if interested – 802-869-1880. As the picture shows, the loom is up and complete.
After a long evening, I was about to turn in when I found a visitor at our door. I took several pictures – best as I could through the window so as not to disturb him. I went to bed and found myself playing that game where you alter one letter in a word at a time in order to arrive at a new word:
Loom . Room . Roam . Road . Toad . Toed . Toes . Tons . Tone . Tune . Tuna . . . Luna!
Oh wow… the bottom pictures look like one of those old time pictures you see in books about species. Very cool.
Thank you! I didn’t know if the photos would come out, and I didn’t want to chance him flying away. I love that you can see his furry belly so well.