Who can use a boomloom?

Our looms are great for ages 7 or 8 and up, though younger children have used them and enjoyed them. They are designed intentionally to be useful for complete beginners and also engaging for expert weavers. They’re also created to be simpler and more accessible than traditional looms for artists and makers with vision and dexterity challenges.

What makes the boomloom Boss unique?

Our patented mechanism creates patterns like a 4-shaft loom, but without pick-up sticks, threaded heddles, shafts, drafts, or complicated instructions. The pattern is built into the pattern bar, making it the easiest way to create complex weaves without having to know how to read a draft. It’s also the only patternmaking loom that can switch to any other pattern in the middle of a piece, simply by switching the pattern bars, because there are no heddles to thread.

Can I weave a scarf on the boomloom Boss?

The metal Boss weaves pieces about 6.5” x 8”. You could piece them together. The cherrywood Boss weaves pieces about 6.5” x 10”, but the weaving area can be lengthened if you replace the dowels with longer 1/2” dowels.

What is it good for?

The real strength of this loom is as a powerful creative tool. By handling so much of the technical part of weaving that is normally the responsibility of the weaver, it allows a level of understanding, experimentation and creativity with complex weaves and patterns that traditional looms don’t provide. We have a hunch that traditional weaving often focuses on the “what” you will weave instead of the “how” because there’s so much time and effort invested in setting up the loom for a particular pattern, and when the weaving gets underway you are basically an extension of the machine. What we found while developing this loom is that the “how” is incredibly engaging. By putting the patternmaking directly at your fingertips, the Boss gets you testing — playing — discovering — learning — and truly creating.

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