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BEADING AND BEAD CRAFT SUPPLIES:: LOOMS:: Setting Up The Beazu Loom

SETUP:

1. Insert warp bars from inside

2. Attach the other main body

3. Attach washers and butterfly nuts to the outside of the body frame

4. Align the bar with springs (facing up) with the two holes on the frame

5. Insert wood screws from the outside of frame and tighten with a screw driver.

6. Insert the other bar with springs the same way as step 4 & 5.

7. Enjoy your new bead loom

NOTES:

The Warp Bar: This piece has a large bar with 5 small holes drilled in it about every inch across. On one side of this bar is a groove, and you have a rubber band securing a flat piece of wood within this groove.

The bar with the spring sits above the Warp Bar.

To warp your loom, start from the center and work out towards the left and the right sides.

You take your threads and put each individual thread between each rung on the spring, then down through the nearest small hole on the Warp Bar. . Use a many threads, thus go as far across on either side of the center, as you want your piece to be. Gather the threads in bunches, which extend equidistant on either side of one of the small holes in the Warp Bar. Slip each bunch over the groove in the Warp Bar, keep your tension as tight as you can, and slip the flat piece of wood over these threads, and clamp down with the rubber band to hold everything in place. You can ease up on the rubber band from time to time, to adjust your tension on your threads.

If your piece is to be longer than the loom itself, then you can keep turning the Warp Bar, to roll up the part of the loomwork you've already completed. On the other Warp Bar, you will need to remember to leave a lot of extra thread, if your piece is to be a long one.

The two pieces of Balsa Wood: These are used to insert between the threads, and to push down on your beads, thus helping you keep the piece tight.

Nylon thread is very susceptible to changes in room temperature. Heat tightens. Cold loosens.

Use a loom-length needle, when you do loomwork.