[MR] warp-weighted loom for sale (Fwd: [warpedweavers] Digest Number 300)

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In a message dated 2/2/2006 8:33:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
warpedweavers at yahoogroups.com writes:

Subject:  Please rescue this loom!!

I've just uploaded a photograph of the  warp-weighted loom that I 
mentioned on this list last week.  The loom  is 6' tall (2 meters, 
roughly) and 3' wide (1 meter, roughly).  It's  a replica of a Viking 
loom and was used in the Viking Millenniuim exhibit  that toured the 
US around the year 2000.  The loom currently resides  in storage in 
Forestville, Maryland, outside of DC.  It is free--you  either have to 
pick it up or have it shipped.  It is already  crated.  The crate 
measures 82"x70"x35".  As you can see from  the photo, the loom is 
beautifully made of pale-colored wood and has a  warp currently on 
it.  It comes complete with the weights, shed  sticks, 
etc.  Everything you see in the photo.

Please rescue  this loom!  They will burn it for firewood if some 
weaver or  historian doesn't claim it.  C'mon, all you loom 
enthusiasts and  historic re-creation folks--someone must want this loom.

For more info,  contact Deborah Wood at <Deborah_Wood at sec.senate.gov>.

If anyone  on the list is in touch with the Norweigian museum in 
Decorah, Iowa,  please let them know about this loom.  It seems to me 
that they'd be  a natural for it.

Ruth