{"id":266,"date":"2008-12-03T20:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-12-03T20:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T01:01:01","slug":"new-old-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"New (old) loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother picked me up a present at a rummage sale this summer, and I finally got to see it when I visited for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>This is the box I was presented with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/box1-20081129.jpg\" alt=\"Shipping box\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.. and its contents. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/loom1-20081129.jpg\" alt=\"German loom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She called me from the sale to inquire whether the loom was worth the (low) price being asked, so I knew what it was, but not much else, just that it appeared to be in good shape. Mom is not a weaver, so she didn&#8217;t even know how to describe what she saw.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/loom3-20081129.jpg\" alt=\"German loom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rigid heddle loom, all wood except for the metal heddles, and with hand-cut cogs on the beams. The only thing that needs repair is one of the corner posts, which has split.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/loom2-20081129.jpg\" alt=\"German loom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Included in the box was a small piece of woven cotton, possibly the only cloth ever to come off this loom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/loom4-20081129.jpg\" alt=\"German loom\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The remaining warp was still on the beam, but was rotten and had to be removed. <\/p>\n<p>The loom fits so well that I think the box might be original. If so, the loom took a sea voyage in 1956. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother picked me up a present at a rummage sale this summer, and I finally got to see it when I visited for Thanksgiving. This is the box I was presented with&#8230; .. and its contents. She called me from the sale to inquire whether the loom was worth the (low) price being asked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}