this video features the elegantly beautiful massive antique loom at the small new england textile mill where sonic fabric (a textile woven from 50% recorded audio cassette tape and 50% polyester thread) is woven. for more info, please see sonicfabric.com.
very interesting, thanks for sharing. :-)
BruckGroup 3 months ago
@northernhouse
who was the scrap dealer
raym2537 5 months ago
Fantastic - thanks for sharing this, it brings back great memories.
I purchased 4 of these Spanish Iwer Looms from a scrap dealer in Ireland back in 1984. I then converted them to weave straight lengths of paper covered wire weft with twisted paper warp to reproduce the world famous Lloyd Loom Fabric which I still produce today in my factory in West Java, Indonesia.
The Iwer is a very versatile workhorse & I am sure that these machines are capable of weaving any material you wish
northernhouse 1 year ago
had one of these on try out-were to replace lineshaft driven Lancashire looms dobby and crossrods-years ago now but i found this loom so interesting-great post
eluvian 1 year ago
Really, really, really, really, cool!
Lowebrau 2 years ago
Wow, so many moving parts! I can't imagine troubleshooting if something breaks.
Jatmundar 2 years ago
Thank you. Absolutely the best I've ever seen on a rapier loom in operation.
Calico2020 2 years ago
Iwer looms rock !
bearmaine 2 years ago
Nice to see someone else running Iwer Looms!
New England, USA
Hotlowpass 3 years ago
gorgeous woven images of all the activity and metal. the sound of this, when slowed too, is sooooooooo lovely relaxing, and this is quite fascinating, sonic fabric. yet the video itself is sonic fabric maybe?
czmma 3 years ago