Equipment
Textile Works keeps a shared floor-loom room, on-site tools for use during drop-ins, and a range of equipment members can hire to take home.
Floor looms at Textile Works
- A 16-shaft AVL computer dobby loom, with a dedicated laptop and weaving software
- A Berger 8-shaft countermarche loom, suited to rug making
- Two Nilus Leclerc looms, 4-shaft and 8-shaft
Floor looms are booked in advance —csw.equipment@gmail.com.
On-site tools
Available during drop-ins and interest groups, not for take-home hire: drum carders, warping mills and boards, yarn swifts, and ball winders.
Equipment you can hire
- Table looms, 4 to 6 shaft
- Tapestry looms and inkle looms
- Spinning wheels
- Drum carders
- Warping boards and warping mills
- Shuttles, bobbin winders, raddles and other accessories
Hire is charged monthly and arranged in advance with CSW's equipment manager atcsw.equipment@gmail.com. The one rate published on CSW's own site is for spinning wheels hired for the Introduction to Spinning course: $30 a month, with a refundable $100 deposit. Rates for everything else aren't published online — ask the equipment manager for current pricing.