MY HUSBAND BOUGHT ME A HAND MADE LOOM WHEN WE FIRST MET FOR MY BIRTHDAY. WE WERE WORKING FOR NEW YORK STATE PARKS DOING ARCHAEOLOGY AT CLAREMONT STATE PARKS IN THE WINTER. WE HAD LONG JOHNS ON AND EXCAVATED A 10 X 10' HOLE WHERE SOME KIND OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATION WAS GOING TO BE PLACED FOR ROBERT STEVENSON'S OLD MANSION.
THE LOOM WAS JUST WHAT I WANTED AND WE BOUGHT SOME DIFFERENT COLORED WOOL YARN PROBABLY AT A TOWN WHERE THEY HAD COLONIAL EVENTS GOING ON NORTH OF WHERE WE WERE LIVING. I NEEDED THIS TYPE OF BUSY WORK TO HELP KEEP ME BUSY DURING THE WINTER. I READ THE INSTRUCTIONS AND STRUNG IT WITH AN OLIVE GREEN YARN, AND PUT THE GOLD YARN INTO THE SHUTTLECOCK AND LEARN HOW TO USE THIS TABLE YARN STEP BY STEP. IT TOOK FOREVER TO WEAVE IT IN AND OUT OF THE WEFT. BUT IT WAS FUN FOR ME. I EVENTUALLY MADE A WIDE SCARF WHICH I USED FOR A TABLE DECORATION.
I HAD BOUGHT A BACK STRAP LOOM FROM MEXICO AND I TRIED TO FINISH THIS SCARF OF WOOL. IT HAD A TRICKY DESIGN AND I THINK I MESSED IT UP AND GAVE IT AWAY.
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