Comments on: Learning Challenges – Weave and Music

By: Debe

Debe — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:15:25 +0000

My Grandmother was a weaver in a wollen mill, she got hit in the head with a high speed shuttle. She recovered physically for the most part, but I dont think she was ever the same. Make sure you don’t have any little ones around, just in case. That goes for anyone with a fly-shuttle.
Your work is beautiful! This is my first time to your site.
It won’t be my last.
Thanks
Debe

By: john

john — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:46:07 +0000

I am new to weaving with a large loom, I have acquired a Glimakra std 63in with a flying shuttle and am having similar events. I have found that an incorrectly wound pirn pulls the exit end of the shuttle towards the fell so that the point of the shuttle hits the side of the shuttle box. Also if there is differential tension on the warp as it is shot the nose of rht shuttle oscilates and comes out of the shed, sometimes violently.

Is this happening with your loom.

John

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:06:28 +0000

I live in fear of my fly shuttle hitting my laptop as I weave on my AVL (I always take pains to place my computer out of harms way – sometimes difficult because it has to be connected to the Dobby). I have also had my fly shuttle shatter a cup of coffee on the tray next to my loom. I am curious about the cause – I trust Laura that it is caused by a snag, but it has never happened to me when the shuttle is heading from right to left – the divots in my studio floor show that it only happens when the shuttle travels from left to right. If it is a snag it must be combined with the a peculiarity in my placement of the beater when I am looking left or something??? Anyway, shuttle terror aside – your work is stunning – your color sense remarkable.

By: Anne Willsford

Anne Willsford — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:28:57 +0000

Owww, that’s dreadful about the damage to your new loom. Hope you can work out a way around it – do you have a lighter flying shuttle, minus the lethal metal tips?
Great weaving design and colour combinations all the same – I’m a triangle girl too.

By: Benita

Benita — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:47:27 +0000

OUCH! I’ve considered building a fly shuttle system and attaching it to my Herald loom. I had no idea they could be so dangerous! Hmmmm….

By the way, that fabric is absolutely beautiful!! I love how the cool colors pop against the warm ones. Lovely! What is it going to be when it grows up?

By: Sandra Rude

Sandra Rude — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:15:23 +0000

Lovely cloth! And yes, it takes a while to build the “muscle memory” for throwing the fly shuttle. In my previous house, there was a fly-shuttle-shaped hole in the window screening on the right side of the loom. As Laura says, sometimes a snag in the pirn will cause the shuttle to go astray. No deaths in the family have occurred, but I do warn people not to stand and watch from the sides of the loom where they might be in the line of a fast-moving sharp point.

By: Restless Knitter

Restless Knitter — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:02:40 +0000

The design for that fabric is gorgeous. Would you mind telling me where I could find that draft, or how it’s done?

By: Alison Daykin

Alison Daykin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:25:26 +0000

Wow, I’ve been flirting with the idea of a fly shuttle for my loom, but I’ll have to seriously think about it, I don’t want to kill anyone, let alone damage my loom!

By the way, the fabric your weaving is fabulous.

Alison

By: India

India — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:11:01 +0000

Such a beautiful pattern! You weave with so nice colours.
That shuttle sounds dangerous but you will soon be very god at it.

By: Lottie

Lottie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:24:34 +0000

Wow the fly shuttle sounds like fun – weaving as an extreme sport! I love the cloth you are weaving, particularly the way the triangles “pop” with the background colours.

Good luck with the shuttle