Uh oh! Look who moved into the guest bedroom today.

It's a Union Custom Loom. This one has been around for a few years, possibly since they first started making them in 1918. The guy I bought it from had rescued it from an old barn and cleaned it up and reassembled it. It's going to take some fiddling around and a little more tender loving care before it's up and running again. You guys know me though, a woodworking and fiber project combined is my favorite.
P.S. Future Guests, I'll need a little forewarning to shuffle things around and set up the bed for you;)

The latest rug.

My newest rug.
Mein jungster Geflickteteppich.
Min nya trasmatta.

23x63 inches/58x160cm. just a little larger the previous(the blue/grey one)

The whole collection.

Die ganze Sammlung.

De hela samling.

Building up a stash of rag rug rags

And there's another pile of old sheets at the other end of the room.

Rug #6

Just finishing up rug #6. . Thanks to Ulf's advice the edges are a little more even.
It measures 22x52 inches/ 56x132cm.

The left edge is bit longer than the right, the warp strings were somehow a little looser along there. I need to learn how to warp the loom more evenly.

The weaving room

Min vävstuga. Meine Webstube.
(click on fotos for enlargement)
In the background the 60+ lbs./@30kg of old bedsheets for the weaving rags. On the loom the new rug for in front of the Door. Below, the rug finished.
It's a little bit narrower on one end. I still need to work on that, but I am learning. I am also trying to think out how to make extra heddles/ harnesses for this loom so that I can do twill weaving. I need to find somewhere that has a loom set up so that I can see how they work.

Table place mats.

Using Partners old blue workshirts and an assortment of fabric scraps I wove up 4 place mats for the dining table.
My original intention was to make 6, but I had problems keeping an even tension in that length of warp string and gave up after 4. Maybe later I'll do the other 2, I do still have the fabric strips ready for them.
The next project will be a rug using torn sheet as the warp threads. i went to the goodwill bin store where they sell old clothes by the pound. When I went to the register they weighed my cart and I had 66 pounds/ around 30 kilos of old bed sheets. That's going to be a lot of rugs;D