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Build your own McMorran Balance to find the yards per pound of any yarn! So you have boxes of mystery yarn that came with the loom you just bought for a bargain price. And you've long been amassing unknown cones from guild auctions, yarn trades, and the occasional garage sale. How to use them? Many projects in Handwoven (and ideas of your own) call for using a variety of specific yarns you don't have. Or, a project calls for a certain yarn in green, but you have an unknown green yarn—can you substitute? If only you knew the yards per pound of the yarn on your mystery cone! If you did, you'd also be able to figure out how many yards there are. Build your own McMorran Balance to find the yards per pound of any yarn! (143 KB) Looms The Full Story by Sheila O’Hara If you want to weave intricately patterned fabrics, you soon learn that intricate designs mean more shafts. See how advancing twills can “advance” from sixteen shafts to thirty-two to a Jacquard loom. Advancing-twill project that advances from sixteen shafts to a Jacquard loom (1.13 MB) The Legacy of the Cranbrook Loom by Jane Patrick This article is an expanded version of "The Cranbrook Loom" article on page 67 of the Sept/Oct 2002 issue. The Cranbrook Loom (252 KB)
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	Computer Weaving Software by Judie Eatough Using Computer Weaving Software This is an updated version (September/October 2005) of the software survey in the Sept/Oct 2002 issue.