Weaving is awesome. We all know this, and most of us also know that until we win the lottery we're not going to own one of those fancy weaving machines, the loom. Well guess again! Enter, the Tri Loom. Actually, Tri Loom is a misnomer as it can be damn near any shape at all. More on this later. You can essentially pound the right number of nails into an old picture frame and have a loom. Or – you know – you can buy some fancy hardwood and inlay material from a luthier, and dress it up a bit. The point being, even the fancy version is going to cost you $40 maybe $60 to make. Would-be weavers rejoice!
A note on construction: if triangular, this is a right triangle, not an equilateral. And each side will have the same number of nails, which means that the spacing on the hypotenuse will be different from the spacing on the short arms. If rectangular, the long side is (in length and number of pins) a multiple of the short side. That can be 1x1, or 1x100, but it can not be 1x1.5 if you want to do continuous weaving as you see me do here.
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