Part 1: 3D printed Table Loom with 8 Shafts 

Always amazes me how you can get yourself to understand complicated machinery so well that you can design and build your own like this. Really impressive

I really want to make this but I forgot how tedious setting up loom can be. Thank you for creating this and making it available, weaving is another lost art. Very thorough video and well thought out.

Absolutely incredible, i have a phenomenal amount of respect for all the effort making this and using it must have taken.

Great project - Being an electronics guy, I would add a small ESP32 processor and some LEDs above each of the lifter levers so that the pattern could be displayed without looking at a piece of paper, but even without modification, what an awesome project.

I’ve seen some other loom projects, but this is one of the most “clean” builds I’ve seen, amazing work as always! (Also that bit on pattern design is really interesting and I’ll have to read up on all that!)

Now this is amazing. One of the more creative usage of 3dprinting I have ever seen

This is amazing! Ive been working with a weaving teacher (@Acton Creative here on RU-vid) and this would be so amazing to interest younger makers who might have access to a 3D printer but can't afford a loom. Like me!

Very cool! Any plans to add Jaquard-style punch cards to program the weave? I think it would be really cool to have a 3D printed desktop version of one of the first programmable machines ever invented.

Started my afternoon watching 3D print tutorials and some how ended up learning how a loom works and how to create weave patterns. Youtuibe algorithm is pretty crazy at times.

One of your coolest projects yet! Amazing how much work it takes just to set up the loom.

This is a really clean build! I would never have considered something like this. Weaving is something I've always wanted to do, but to be honest, warping the loom is just not something I'm ever going to be good at :D

Super clever and beautiful design. Nice. My dad was a loomfixer and weaver. Brings back good memories. I had to turn down the background music though. Deeply annoying after 10 seconds.

An automatic Poststamp applier would be sick. Keep up the great work !

Super cool and pattern code was very well explained. Next step is to automate that thing, cnc table loom or something 😋👍

I am truly amazed at how skilled you need to be to be able to design something like this loon machine! I'm guessing you're some kind of engineer?

Thank you for creating this! I'm interested in a simplified power table loom for those who want to home-produce fabric. I think there might be a market in people who may not be textile enthusiasts but like the idea of maintaining the ability to make their own fabric should they wish to. That would mean a simplified pattern-less loom probably, so its easier to understand and fix, but might be also more rugged if the ability to make a pattern is taken out.

Back at it 💪

Excellent! Get weaving!

So glad that i discovered your channel, this is absolutely amazing! 🤩

Really love this, I wanted a wooden table loom for awhile now but it's been way above my budget. It looks kind of width extendable too(though that would be a future me problem).

Holy crap! That blew the 4 shaft i was designing out of the water! A lot of those design ideas are absolutely amazing! I will give myself some grace, I haven't studied loom design, just looked at the basic mechanics and have been winging it the past 6 years, but man, this is a treat. I just wish I had time to put into designing my own looms. I did figure out how to make heddles out of wire with a jig I made. Let me know if you ever need that.

I finished building mine this morning and so far it looks great and everything runs smoothly. The one and only tricky spot I've found so far is that the two center shafts won't operate properly, the screws at the bottom of the frame that retains the elastics are interfering with the bottom lever bearings and will only move about halfway through their range. I'm going to continue investigating it to see if I can resolve the issue (probably just find some screws with shorter heads). Overall though it's a terrific design and printed fantastically!

Ooooooh very cool!

This makes me want to build a sock knitting machine. Especially with how fast my socks wear out, if I could just make a new one within a day it'd be so much better. I can hand knit them, but it takes a couple of weeks for one sock and it's not particularly durable.

Impressive!!! You are truly a MAKER! Please keep it doing! If anything we can assisit, we'd love to give our full support!

I love your videos I genuinely wish there were more channels like yours. This is the perfect application for 3D-Printing and I don't see many people complete machines like this. I wouldn't mind seeing you make some home appliances like something foot peddle powered (like old singer sewing machines) or or hand crank powered (like grain mills), a printing press would be cool too. Either way good stuff.

THIS IS AMAZING!

This looks interesting. Would definitely want to build it!

Amazing job!!!👏👏

I was about to sub til I saw that I already was...back when I saw your lenses video.

Awesome, nice work!

nice design 😀

That's awesome!

amazing!

Weißte jetzt warum ich kein Weber bin xD Super Arbeit!

Great work, budy . In Peru they were doing very sophisticated textiles out of wool and cotton. Paracas Culture and was done 2300 years ago before Jesus. Keyword -> textiles paracas . . .

Can you make a Leavers Lace machine? And digitise the input system? I tried reading how it works and my brain hurt. This loom was super cool!

thats really cool! Any plans to make this into a jacquard loom?

Impressive!.. mybe you should make rope making machine.. like those dynema ot climbing ones

Feels like a handful of cheap electromagnetic servos and a string round a bobbin on a rod connected to a motor and wheel to wind/unwind would permit it to be automated simply? (+microcontroller/lcd)

What's the space between the heddle bars? I'd love to use TexSolv heddles (I've got a bunch of them). Also, is there a combined file / package for just the dobby version? I don't want to print parts for the manual version only to not use them - it's the dobby feature I'm most excited about.

Neat project However why did you decide to copy the Ashford Katie loom which is know for its lack of ability to be scaled up instead of a loom design that can be scaled up wider than 12 inches of weaving width?

Some parts of this are quite good, but definitely not for anything high tension, fine woven, or for longevity. I appreciate the pully addition, though I personally would have taken more inspiration from louet rather than the ashford Katie (especially since it's plastic). Louet have a very elegant pulley system on all their looms, and it probably would help to relieve some of the stress on the plastic frames if you did some more research into their technique. Anyone attempting this should arrange at least thick plywood for the frames and beater (lazer cutting patterns might help), and not compramise on the beams or rollers, just buy a couple of rolling pins and some hardwood skirting board, it will last and add a lot of tension capabilities. The plastic shaft ends are a great idea, as well as all the small parts, but plastic reeds are a bit silly when you can get real ones online. I don't even know why you would go through the trouble of printing an 8 shafter if you will need a beating stick to get the sett right anyway, at that point you're going slower than a rigid heddle loom. Anyone intending to try this should go to their local weaving guild and try a real one first, you will understand which parts will be problematic, and probably get enough spare parts for free or cheap to make something that will last and produce quality cloth. If this isn't an option for you, you should consider rigid heddle weaving first.

That's awesome, how many grams of filament were used in printing it?

Wow amazing job. How Do you produce this good looking surfaces?

Brilliant work! …now make it automatic!

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I already own a 8 shaft Ashford table loom - which I can see this is drawing a lot of inspiration - I might print this for sampling. What the EPI on the Reed? 10, 12?

Wow, incredible! I considered a 3d printed rigid heddle loom, but 8 shafts, w-a-n-t! How much filament did it take?

I would be interested in varying reed densities (slots per cm).

What size printed is needed for this. I have 2 printers but the bigger one isnt very accurate and the other is on the small side.

Will this fit on a Bambu A1 mini print bed?

can you use smaller thread?

instructions unclear, vibing to beat.

are you aware that your headles don't have to be printed? You can use string and knot it in a specific way, and it's hella cheaper.

Looks like a plastic copy of an Ashford Katie loom.

this seems complicated,

Very interesting. Have you also seen Oluwaseyi Sosanya's 3D weaving machine? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rhRCtXcioiA.html I especially like the way that you employed rubber bands as fasteners. This is the way! Is it possible to alter this so that I can use it for making wristband sized braids?

Bro please working electric loom 8 frames

so why not 3d printing sewing machine. instead. I mean using 3d printer with a sewing tool head. yes two more degrees of freedom over normal sewing machine. instead of using your hands.

incredible waste of time moving on.

Horrible music.