I put 50 yards of rug warp on my 48″ Macomber loom back in April and started on another round of rag rugs. I have finished 18 so far – judging by the last round a year or so ago, I must be about 60% of the way through the warp. I lost about a month of weaving time in June and July when we moved the loom to my new studio space, but now I am back up and running!
This time around I have been using up many boxes and bags of fringed selvages – some are still leftover from the materials I bought with the loom 3 years ago, mostly afghan selvages from Leesburg Looms & Supply. These are mainly synthetic and/or cotton selvages. I’m also working my way through some of the Pendleton wool selvages I have picked up at the mill outlet stores.
So here is a gallery of pictures. Some of these have been sold and some are out on consignment; I have a few orders and am trying to stockpile some for the weaving guild sales coming up in the fall.
068 & 069 - Pendleton brown & cream
070 – Pendleton upholstery fabric cut in strips
071 - 2 colors of Pendleton upholstery fabric
072 was bought before I had a chance to take its picture! (not that I’m complaining…)
073 & 074 - heavy Leesburg gold & pale silver blue, white chenille stripes
075 & 076 - Leesburg black/gold/white with mocha stripes
077 - using up mixed colors of Pendleton wool fringed selvages
078 - Pendleton selvages, predominantly royal blue
079 - got a little crazy with the Leesburg black & white!
080 - Leesburg, dark blue with green/pale yellow stripes
081 - Leesburg, misc grey/brown/beige with rust stripes, almost 5 ft.long
082 - Pendleton lightweight (shirting?) selvage used double
083 - Pendleton lightweight used double, gray & turquoise
Now I am embarking on a 10-foot long hallway runner that is a special order. Should be interesting!
Twisp of Fate 
I love the rugs they look great. Hopefully once I figure out how to warp my Maccomber and get the yarn on correctly I’ll be able to use up some of the carpet warp I got with it.
Love the rugs! I am thinking of purchasing a 48″ Macomber and wonder what your opinion of it is as a rug loom? Do you have tension problems? Did you add extra weight to the beater bar? Also, for such long warps, did you add a sectional beam? I’d really appreciate your thoughts!
I bought the loom used and it came with the sectional beam. I put on about 50 yds of rug warp at a time so the sectional beam is definitely useful. I recently bought a new tensioner from Macomber, to use while sectional warping, and like it better than the funky one (non-Macomber) that came with the loom. I have had no tension problems and don’t use extra weight on the beater bar, although it hadn’t actually occurred to me to do so.