My beautiful and talented wife replaced one of her looms with a new one and she needed a stand and a tool trap for it. We’ve learned that the design of the one that was offered for it didn’t really hold the loom in position very well so instead of buying one I copied, resized, and adapted a stand that worked well on her larger loom. In addition I had some 1/4” steel rod which fit the holes on the front of the loom perfectly and I made the rails for a tool trap which she covered with some rip-stop nylon from an old garment bag. A tool trap is just a little hammock along the front of the loom to hold various weaving tools while you’re working.
I had a bunch of nice maple off cuts from the Sewing Table project so I was able to make it out of those. Couple of interesting things in the construction were cutting the slot in the top of the uprights and for the sliding adjustable front supports using my router table and doing through tenons both for the uprights and then through those tenons for the stretcher. I glued it up but I probably could have just wedged it given the way the tenons intersect. I sanded it to 320 grit and put a paste wax finish on it which is very smooth and silky.
I found some nice metric bolts in various sizes with knobs on them for the adjustable positioning elements and also to make the loom removable for storage or use on a tabletop.
The other project was also for my beautiful and talented wife and it was a frame for a cross stitch piece that she finished recently. I made the frame out of black mesquite with a natural danish oil finish. I’m getting better at frames, my miters were better on this one and the glue up and fastening was nicer. I used the frame clamping jig that I acquired after the last effort and that helped a lot. I just did a simple bevel detail on the inside of the frame which looks good.
I used an acid free double stick tape to mount the cross stitch to some foam core and then I put an art board spacer between it and the mat as was recommended in various guides I found online. I used acrylic for the “glass”. We blocked the cross stitch to get it reasonably flat and square
