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Hand Loom for Linen.

Building a new loom along historic lines in 2023. . . I spent much of 2023 building a new loom specifically for linen. The finished loom is shown in the photographs above. The images further down this post show the various stages of the design and build process. The loom is modelled on examples of … Continue reading Hand Loom for Linen. →

A handtowel for Albert Tyler

. In 2023 I made a small batch of huckaback handtowels from the finest unbleached linen yarn I could obtain. One of these I monogrammed in memory of Albert Tyler, the last of the Lopham handloom weavers. Tyler was almost certainly involved in weaving the ‘Lopham linen’ which is now in the collection of Norfolk … Continue reading A handtowel for Albert Tyler →