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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Wow fantastic, but what I really want is a spinning wheel
boobiejuicemama- Posts : 240
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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Me too
The problem is that over here, they are bought by pretentious middle class women who think that they are "soooo charming and rustic" and " would look wonderful in the family room".
So they are then over priced by antique shops and become unaffordable to any low income bloke like me who wants to learn how to spin
chunter chunter chunter
The problem is that over here, they are bought by pretentious middle class women who think that they are "soooo charming and rustic" and " would look wonderful in the family room".
So they are then over priced by antique shops and become unaffordable to any low income bloke like me who wants to learn how to spin
chunter chunter chunter
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Wow that looks great! I'd love a loom, but sadly have no where to put it just yet. My mum's just recently started weaving again and goodness me you can make some WONDERFUL cloth with them!
I've no patience for spinning - tried it once or twice, but it's so hard to keep the yarn going without it breaking off from your fleece. I concluded that I'd rather buy the yarn and spend the time making it into things! Home made yarn is gorgeous though and you can get some fantastic colours from natural dyes - remember my mum spinning and dying a lovely mustard yellow made from onion skins.
I've no patience for spinning - tried it once or twice, but it's so hard to keep the yarn going without it breaking off from your fleece. I concluded that I'd rather buy the yarn and spend the time making it into things! Home made yarn is gorgeous though and you can get some fantastic colours from natural dyes - remember my mum spinning and dying a lovely mustard yellow made from onion skins.
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Badger a quick look at ebay oz and I suspect the same goes here
boobiejuicemama- Posts : 240
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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Badger wrote:Me too
The problem is that over here, they are bought by pretentious middle class women who think that they are "soooo charming and rustic" and " would look wonderful in the family room".
So they are then over priced by antique shops and become unaffordable to any low income bloke like me who wants to learn how to spin
chunter chunter chunter
I really wish I'd known you earlier - my mother auctioned two spinning wheels a few years ago when they moved to a much smaller house, and she hardly made any money from them at all. Nobody seemed interested (and this was in Cheltenham,where you would have thought a few pretentious middle class women would have fought over them!). The rest of her weaving stuff went to the local college where there was a textiles course, but there was no interest in the spinning wheeels. What a difference a few years make!
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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
I have been on the look out for one for ages...
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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Dandelion wrote:and this was in Cheltenham,
are you a 'Nam veteran as well, Dandy?
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Dandelion wrote:
I really wish I'd known you earlier - my mother auctioned two spinning wheels a few years ago when they moved to a much smaller house, and she hardly made any money from them at all. Nobody seemed interested (and this was in Cheltenham,where you would have thought a few pretentious middle class women would have fought over them!). The rest of her weaving stuff went to the local college where there was a textiles course, but there was no interest in the spinning wheels. What a difference a few years make!
Isn't life perverse eh.
I've wanted to learn to spin ever since Tom talked Margo into buying hers...
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Wilhelm Von Rhomboid wrote:Dandelion wrote:and this was in Cheltenham,
are you a 'Nam veteran as well, Dandy?
I certainly am - though just to confuse things I was born in Hackney!!
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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
I have a spinning wheel...hubby needs to fix it. One of my kids broke it. Think I had maybe 2 lessons...but got sick of lugging it into the city. Need to find a teacher locally to teach me how.
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Cheap Looms on Ebay
Dryard 24inch four shaft table loom 40 quid
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dryard-24inch-four-shaft-table-loom-/180622830137?pt=UK_Crafts_OtherCrafts_Spinning_Weaving&hash=item2a0df5aa39
Floor Loom 4 shaft 99p in Bristol
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Floor-Loom-4-shaft-/220737848910?pt=UK_Crafts_OtherCrafts_Spinning_Weaving&hash=item336500464e
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dryard-24inch-four-shaft-table-loom-/180622830137?pt=UK_Crafts_OtherCrafts_Spinning_Weaving&hash=item2a0df5aa39
Floor Loom 4 shaft 99p in Bristol
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Floor-Loom-4-shaft-/220737848910?pt=UK_Crafts_OtherCrafts_Spinning_Weaving&hash=item336500464e
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Excellent if you can get them! Top one is very similar to my one, but mine' s a Harris, suppose it's 'vintage' now lol Hope to get stuck in once the moving is over, and try and get to join a new Guild up there.
Shame you're not closer, Badger, I have a spare spinning wheel you could have had. Not sure I could post that lol
Shame you're not closer, Badger, I have a spare spinning wheel you could have had. Not sure I could post that lol
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
They are splendid and such amazing prices, I wish I had known that looms and wheels went for so little before we moved. I would have bought and added to our container..
Over here they are bought by bored middle class housewives as decorations for their newly renovated and registered Century homes, so are neatly priced way out of my pocket...
Over here they are bought by bored middle class housewives as decorations for their newly renovated and registered Century homes, so are neatly priced way out of my pocket...
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Dealers here have a very strange idea about the value of certain antiques, so you get very good usable spinning wheels, which are admittedly pieces of art, yet sell only as conversation pieces to the rich and are priced our of the pockets of folk who would, and want to, use them.
I have a friend down the road who is married to a sheep farmer. They have a barn stuffed to the gulls with fleeces and there is no market for them, so every year more wool gets added. I wanted to teach myself to spin and dye to create my own yarns. But the lack of a decently priced wheel (for what would be another hobby to be honest) prevents that - the last one I saw fr sale was $300..
I have a friend down the road who is married to a sheep farmer. They have a barn stuffed to the gulls with fleeces and there is no market for them, so every year more wool gets added. I wanted to teach myself to spin and dye to create my own yarns. But the lack of a decently priced wheel (for what would be another hobby to be honest) prevents that - the last one I saw fr sale was $300..
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
Badger wrote:....... But the lack of a decently priced wheel (for what would be another hobby to be honest) prevents that - the last one I saw fr sale was $300..
Can't be different than here? Antique wheels sell for antique prices but new ones don't (and yes, they are currently made but I don't know prices)
However, all the "spinsters" I know around here didn't start with a wheel. Instead they first learned to spin with the pre wheel technology. Badger, simply get or make for yourself a distaff and spindle. You can easily make this tool if they aren't sold in your area.
A dowel, a screw hook (screwed axially into its end), and a weight disk with a hole into which the dowel fits tightly -- say a hardwood disk with the hole drilled very slightly undersized, soaked in water to expand and the dowel inserted if you don't want to glue). Usually also some other projections on which the start of your yarn gets fastened so look up for examples.
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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
A distaff and spindle would never give a thread of sufficient quality for the kind of work that I do.. I have tried it and I know that I need to learn wheel spinning to produce the kind of thread that I work with..
New wheels seem to sell for more than antique and part of my personal philosophy is to use old tools (whenever I can) that have a working life and still could be used, that's why I get annoyed by good tools being sold as decorative items for ridiculous prices..
New wheels seem to sell for more than antique and part of my personal philosophy is to use old tools (whenever I can) that have a working life and still could be used, that's why I get annoyed by good tools being sold as decorative items for ridiculous prices..
Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
I realise it is the wrong time of year, but what about yard sales or the like, or advertising in a local paper or craft area or whatever your equivelant of Freecycle is.
Keep on looking at ebay etc as things do turn up from your part of the woods.
Keep on looking at ebay etc as things do turn up from your part of the woods.
polgara- Posts : 3028
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Re: Cheap looms on Ebay
The prices of looms do seem to rocket in the last few minutes though as I discovered after months of watching.
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