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Walnut Creek, CA, due east of San Francisco and Oakland, in Contra Costa County
$2,300
Glimakra Standard 53”/ 135cm, countermarch, 8/10
Excellent condition
When you see this Glimakra Standard for the first time, you are likely to exclaim… oh my gosh! What beautiful wood.
This Glimakra has the most beautiful wood of any Glimakra I have ever seen. The husband of the previous owner was a custom furniture maker, so he created beautiful custom treadles, and a pair of custom warp stick catchers. This master woodworker also carefully lightly sanded by hand to preserve the original wood patina, then preserved and beautified the wood as he would do with fine antique furniture. The wood is healthy and glows, but does not shine. Custom wedges that hold the loom togethe are made from dark walnut.
Weaving width: 135 cm or 53”
This is the “Goldilocks” width. The 47” is too narrow to weave the maximum width you can throw. The 59” is too wide. 53” is “just right” if you want to throw the shuttle without a fly shuttle attachment, yet maximize your weaving width. A bonus is that this 53” loom has the same footprint as a current 47” loom.
Parts can be purchased from GlimakraUSA for this loom, if you wish to expand it.
custom treadles
custom walnut wedges for holding the loom together or use the original ones
10-dent Stainless steel 54” Glimakra reed in new condition
8 shafts (can add 2 to bring to 10)
10 treadles (can add treadles & lamms for shafts beyond 10)
new Texsolve heddles (no old cotton heddles)
Countermarche (horizontal)
Upper short set of lamms and lower long set of lamms
brake release lever
All Texsolve cord. No old cotton cording.
Apron cords and tie-on rods
Cords from countermarch and lamms to treadles
pair of custom warp stick catchers.
lease sticks
warp sticks
shaft holders for 8 shafts
fabric protector board which fits in a slot in front of the breast beam
rubber loom feet
This loom can be converted to dobby using a Toika conversion
Unlike some older Glimakra looms which have both sets of lamms the same length, this loom was modernized to the current lamm lengths, with upper short lamms and lower long lamms, just like a new Glimakra. This loom can be upgraded to 10-shafts, or if the shafts are changed to the thinner shafts, this loom frame will accommodate 16 shafts.
It pains me to sell this loom, because it is so beautiful, and I drove all the way to Idaho to buy it. I am selling this loom because I have way, way too many looms, and I think that realistically, I am never going to weave on this loom. I am trying to get down to 3 floor looms, still won’t be there after this one is sold. I need to fit comfortably into my house. I have come to the conclusion that there are Scandinavian- loom people and jack- + mixed-type- loom people and I am “not” one of the Scandinavian loom people. I am one of those others… the jack and Louet folks. People who love Glimakra REALLY love Glimakra. Before I bought this, I read every Glimakra owner’s description of their loom, and “absolutely perfect” summed up the many responses. Unfortunately, weaving on a Glimakra does not suit me, because I really love this loom.
I was asked about the age of this Standard. I do not know. I am the third owner, and was not told when I bought it. It is in excellent condition and in the end, that is the most important aspect of a used loom. I know that the beater bar has 2 bolts, and a single bolt was replaced by 2 bolts on the beater in 1982, so it is newer than 1982. Plastic beater pin started in 1979 and it has that. But whether is is 1982 or 1992 or 2000, I have no idea, but my guess would be that is it 20-25 years old, so 1990’s, but might be 1980’s, definitely later than 1982.
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