watervole | 17th century weaving

Looking at a second loom... (bottom right)

This one is nice little box tape loom from a book in 1532. You can see the floating rigid heddle, and I think the band can be wound round the rods at each end.

Probably fairly similar to this modern reproduction https://www.jkseidel.com/6-29.JPG

I could see myself using something like that, as it appears very portable (though my modern inkle loom would be more comfortable to work with).

(Credit where it's due - I don't know who 'Heather' is, but her page on looms is very helpful - https://www.heatherspages.net/the-boxloom-in-period...)

But were these little box tape looms used in England?

They appear to have gone to the USA from Germany. https://www.ikfoundation.org/itext.../tape-loom-weaving.html

Scandinavia was still using backstrap looms with rigid heddles.

Were the English using box looms, floor looms, or backstrap?

And will I manage to find one that is confirmed Civil War era, or only ones from a hundred years earlier...

17th century weaving - box tape loom

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