New old loom for weaving tartan

[NHhighlander]

Chapeau!
(and because someone was pulled over for using French by itself) I take my hat off to you, Sir!

Steve, if you haven't heard it before, just know that you're kind of amazing in many ways.
Made me even want that knitting machine - "focus, Yama, focus!" says my men's group leader at church often.

As to the shorter answers...
Sigh.
Problem is, it would require me to have figured out why I'm doing things - something that more often than not, I don't know, myself. There's little sanity or a good reason, it's a waste of my talents and resources, that could be used for something that actually makes people's lives better... But, no. Handmade paper. Calligraphy. Now, tartan.



Bottom line, as long as I don't irritate others too much, I feel OK here, I've received much more than I have contributed, and, it's not like there are 500 places where the matter of a 1770s Highlands tartan loom is of interest to anybody, right? I hope I get to hear from museums, but not holding my breath. I have no words to express how, even if disagreeing, people still try to help. Priceless.

Thank you, again

[geomick]

A very valid answer to my question could have been something as simple as -

"I like the look and idea of a flying shuttle. I am just fascinated by the idea, and technology of, a flying shuttle."
or
"I would like to be able to weave faster than I am able to do throwing the shuttle by hand."
or
"I would like to weave widths that are too wide to easily throw a shuttle by hand."

All of these are very valid reasons. For example - I knit on a Hand-Cranked Circular Sock Knitting Machine because I got fascinated by the machine itself. It is a piece of steam-engine era technology that peaked my curiosity at first and then challenged my mechanical mind.
A CSM just knits circular tubes of fabric. It knits faster and more consistently than by hand but nothing more than what a Hand-Knitter can do.

https://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/...id=44868&stc=1

I'm not really a knitter. But I wanted to be able to produce kilt hose for my customers who did not fit in commercial hose or be able to produce patterns and colors in yarns that are not readily available in the commercial market.

The patterned grey kilt hose look fantastic