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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Aw well I hope my colors keep you good company for many long years. 😊 💜

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

🥰 Your knitting brought it to life!

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Ok so this is actually from a couple of days ago now but I'm just getting caught up on posting alltheplaces. My second project on the Pendleton floor loom is in motion! #weaving #slowcloth #floorloom #fiberarts

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

She's home! My refurbished 4 shaft 30" Pendleton floor loom made the trip from my Parents' house to my home studio safe and sound earlier today. #weaving #fiberarts #floorloom

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Fnished the small test warp on the refurb 4 shaft Pendleton floor loom! My beat & selvages are still inconsistent but I'm feeling comfortable at the loom & I'm ridiculously proud of this strip of handwoven web. If the weather cooperates we're planning to move her home on Tues! 🤞 #weaving #fiberarts

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Huzzah indeed!!! 🎉😊

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I'm officially in my floor loom weaving era!!!! Unspeakably proud of this wonky little bit of weaving. Now it's practice, practice, practice. But not until at least Monday. Resting time. #weaving #slowcloth #floorloom #fiberarts

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I hope you find something that will work! 🤞

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Not sure if this info transfers to a Rasmussen but I've read from someone who does a lot of loom maintenance/refurbishing that you can use screen door springs from the hardware store to replace Macomber brake springs. Maybe worth a shot?

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Floor loom reassembly is complete! A couple of small things to dial in still but that will happen Sat when I go over to put the test warp on. Tomorrow is definitely a rest day! #weaving #floorloom

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We got so much done today on the 4 shaft Pendleton floor loom with installing replacement parts and doing most of the major reassembly! Rest day tomorrow but we should be able to tackle the rest on Thursday. Initial function tests are looking good! #weaving #floorloom #fiberarts

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So exciting!! She's stunning. What kind of sizing treatment are you planning to use?

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Absolutely! My rigid heddle loom flips upside down and becomes a small warping board but it's going to be wonderful to have a larger stand alone one as I move to the floor loom. I usually use an attachment on my cordless drill to wind bobbins but I think having a manual option is key!

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I haven't even gotten into counting the wire heddles on the Dorothy table loom yet but it's great to know that if I need to supplement I can and I'm less concerned about abrasion from the steel heddles on the table loom which will have less tension and shorter warps than the floor loom.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The Pendleton loom came with 344 9.5" flat steel heddles. Too few to weave my kitchen towels. I decided to do a full replacement with inserted eye heddles (B-day present), keeping the old ones for backups after cleaning/oiling them. In a stroke of kismet the table loom takes...9.5" heddles! #weaving

Three hundred and forty four flat steel heddles that are nine and a half inches long are bundled onto zip ties and laid on top of some newspaper on Kelli's dye table.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I can't wait to put them to the best use I can!

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🤣 Yeah we gotta get the Landlord onto building me out a loom room.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The 4 shaft 15.75" Dorothy table loom needs a cloth beam crank but the reed looks salvageable with a little corrosion removal and otherwise I think it just needs cleaning. I haven't really gotten the best look down inside it yet but the levers do function properly.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Yes I'm so grateful and excited! For years she's been half joking about me inheriting her huuuuge counterbalance loom (which we would never have room for) and she seemed really happy to be able to pass some things along that will get a loving new home and put to good use again. 😊

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The warping board was the thing I really needed ASAP and this one was handmade by her Aunt so it's extra special! It does need reglueing of some pegs but that's easy peasy. The bobbin winder just needs a drive band and it's compatible with the Leclerc storage spools which is perfect!

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm overwhelmed with gratitude! The Leclerc rocking weaving bench is the exact one I was hoping to someday aquire since the long term goal is an 8 shaft 32" Macomber and this is the only commercial bench I've seen that adjusts high enough for a Mac and has the angle adjustment as well.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

On the day the Pendleton loom came to me my Wife happened to be heading out of town to visit her family for a few days. While there she got a chance to see her Aunt who in addition to being a fantastic human was a weaver for many years. Rae came back with a car full of goodies for me! #weaving

A view of Kelli's dye table area laden with new to them weaving equipment including a weaving bench with the sode storage bags removed and placed on top, a handmade warping board, a four shaft fifteen and three quarter inch table loom, a bobbin winder, boat shuttles and bobbins, small stick shuttles, tapestry beaters and tapestry bobbins.

A closer view of the smaller weaving items laid out on Kelli's dye table on top of newspaper. The reed and cloth beam from the table loom sit off to one side.

An angled view of Kelli's dye table and the four shaft Leclerc Dorothy table loom.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Update on the Pendleton loom refurbishment! It's progressing beautifully & today we started replenishing the extremely dry wood. Left is after cleaning but before conditioning. Right is after 2 coats of Howard's Feed & Wax. Replacement parts are on their way & then we can start reassembly! #weaving

A photo collage showing two images. The left photo is of a largely disassembled four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom sitting on a blue tarp in a kitchen. The right photo shows some of the smaller wooden loom parts like the treadle assembly laid out on a piece of cardboard on a kitchen table. The wood on both photos is clean but very dry and light colored.

A photo collage showing four images. The top two photos show a side and front angle of the largely disassembled four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom from the first photo collage. Newspapers have been laid down between the tarp and the loom. The bottom two photos show some of the other loom parts that have been removed for cleaning and reconditioning laid out on a piece of cardboard and some newspaper on a kitchen table. The wood in all of the photos has gotten two coats of Howard's Feed and Wax and is considerably darker, warmer and healthier looking compared to the before state.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Yesterday a dear friend passed along to me a 4 shaft 30" weaving width Pendleton floor loom!! She needs some TLC, a couple of small repairs & some replacement parts but my Parents are helping me with the refurb and we've already made a ton of progress! #weaving #slowcloth #floorloom #fiberarts

A four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom sits folded outside on a slate walkway in front of a driveway.

A four shaft Pendleton X frame floor loom is sitting unfolded and largely disassembled on a blue tarp in the kitchen of Kelli's childhood home. The loom has been freshly cleaned and the metal parts have been oiled.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Pickup stick & heddle rod are all set! Need to wind some weft & the weaving can begin! I haven't woven 3/1 twill since my first towel project in 2017. Luckily I still had all my string heddles tucked safely away but I remember them being a bit too long so I spent time shortening them all. #weaving

An angled view of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom equipped with two 10 dent heddles and warped with a hand dyed warp of transitioning stripes. A pick up stick and a heddle rod with string heddles attached can be seen behind the rigid heddles.

Two piles of string heddles lay on Kelli's desk. In the lefthand pile the loops are larger. The righthand pile contains fewer string heddles and the loops have been knotted a second time to reduce the size of the loop in the string. One string heddle from each pile sits separated in the middle to show the difference.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Front heddle is threaded and my shoulder says that's plenty for today. #handdyed #weaving #fiberarts

A view of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom equipped with two 10 dent heddles that have been threaded with a transitioning stripe warp made of a hand painted repeating purple gradient and silver grey speckle overdyed yarns.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Thank you! I'll definitely be sharing the progress and results. 😊

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

You're so welcome and I will be sure to! 😊

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Thanks! I got it from the Organic Cotton Plus website. This is my first time using it but so far I'm quite pleased. A bit more lint left behind in the rinse pots than the cottolin I've dyed but not substantially so and it took the dye beautifully. We'll see how the finished cloth performs.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

She's beamed! Threading the front heddle and tying on to the front will be a task for tomorrow if energy holds. 🤞 Yarn is a 55% hemp/ 45%organic cotton 8/2 that I hand dyed. Warp is 4.5 yards and I'm hoping to get 4 towels. #handdyed #weaving #fiberarts #slowcloth

An overhead view from the front of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom in the process of having a warp wound onto the back beam. The warp is hanging over the front beam, tensioned by hand weights in a bin on the floor with the rest of the unbeamed warp that is just out of the frame. The warp is made of transitioning stripes of hand dyed yarn in speckle overdyed silver grey and handpainted gradient purple. The light purple portion of the gradient is currently in focus.

Angled view from of the back of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom in the process of having a warp wound onto the back beam. The warp is made of transitioning stripes of hand dyed yarn in speckle overdyed silver grey and handpainted gradient purple. The medium purple portion of the gradient is currently in focus.

View from of the back of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom in the process of having a warp wound onto the back beam. The warp is made of transitioning stripes of hand dyed yarn in speckle overdyed silver grey and handpainted gradient purple. The dark purple portion of the gradient is currently in focus.

Overhead view of a clear plastic dishpan sitting on a carpeted floor. A pile of hand dyed warp bouts are piled in the bin. Two five pound hand weights are attached with binder rings to choke ties around the warp to help provide tension while winding the warp onto the loom. The warps are a mixture of gradient purple sections and silver grey with speckle overdye sections.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Because of the stripes this time I secured my warp chains to the front support by a choke tie, draped the cross end over the heddle & threaded sitting at the back of the loom. I'll tie onto the back apron rod, beam the warp and then insert the front heddle and thread it before tying onto the front.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Oh interesting! I haven't done the modified F2B I'm doing here before but I need to split some of my warp chains into smaller stripes as I thread. I always do my threading in the heddle blocks though. I put the back heddle in the front blocks, thread it first & then move it back & thread the front.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A kitchen sink leak threw a wrench into things around here (ha) but today I finally started getting this warp on the loom. The back heddle is threaded and if I'm up for it tomorrow I will tie on to the back apron and beam the warp.

A closeup view of Kelli holding a warp cross in their right hand and preparing to begin the process of threading the silver grey and speckle dyed warp chain through a ten dent heddle on their Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom. The back of the loom is facing Kelli and the camera. The bright yellow green handle of a threading hook is placed through the hole in the heddle where Kelli will begin threading from left to right.

An angled view of the front if Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom. A series of hand dyed warp chains have been secured to the horizontal front support of the loom with ties and have also been wrapped around the support to keep the chains from dangling down too near the floor and sparking the curiousity of a certain tortie kitty. The ends of the warp chains have been threaded front to back in the first step of double heddle threading. The ends are secured with slip knots in one inch warp sections and flipped back over the top of the heddle.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

New scarf in the shop! 🧣I'm so happy with how these peacock inspired gradient colors played together in the clasped weft with the black warp. 🦚 All handwoven with my hand dyed yarns on a rigid heddle loom.🧶🍃🍂🍁 More details a www.LladyLlama.com

Front side view of a mannequin wearing a handwoven clasped weft scarf in gradient jewel tones with black fringe against the outside wall of a rustic building in an autumnal rural setting.

Colorful handwoven clasped weft scarf in jewel tones with black fringe draped over a weaving stick shuttle that is suspended from a tree in a natural autumnal setting.

Rear view of a mannequin wearing a handwoven clasped weft scarf in gradient jewel tones with black fringe against the outside wall of a rustic building in an autumnal rural setting.

Side view of a mannequin wearing a handwoven clasped weft scarf in gradient jewel tones with black fringe against the outside wall of a rustic building in an autumnal rural setting.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I met this little woolly bear friend with a reminder that the cold weather is creeping closer. I have something woolly of my own coming to the shop soon that could help out with that! 🍃🍂🍁🧣👀 #handwoven #handdyed #weaving #slowcloth #scarfseason

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Absolutely! I think it will be more ergonomic for me to wind from a vertically hung board as well. I prop my loom stand at the best angle I can when I'm winding but I'm definitely not doing my shoulder any favors because I'm reaching instead of being able to stand and move my whole body as I wind.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Nice! I love a 2-in-1 tool but I'm at the point now where one part of the process is being held up too often and I'm wasting brain energy and time.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Wove a bit on the Cricket while I was heating batches of rinse water today. Last 3 skeins of weft yarn for the Samhain themed towels are now rinsed and hanging to dry. #weaving

A fifteen inch Schacht Cricket rigid heddle loom sits on Kelli's desk. It has been warped in stripes of hand dyed six ply hemp yarn. The colors are a sandy gold, navy, a silvery driftwood grey and a medium blue. Weaving is in progress with the same yarns being used for the weft in color blocks. Short ends of weft stick out on the surface of the web from split joins. Two stick shuttles are laid across the warp. One is wound with the navy yarn and the other with the silvery driftwood grey.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/09/2025

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Wound this wee striped warp yesterday for the Cricket. Yarn is a 6-ply hemp that I dyed a couple of years ago. Now the Kromski is flipped back over into loom mode so it's ready for the towel warp. Getting a stand alone warping board is one of my hopes for the year. #weaving

A closeup view of Kelli's Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom in the warping board configuration. A small hand dyed six ply hemp yarn warp is wound onto the pegs. The stripes of color are a sandy gold, a silvery driftwood grey, a medium blue and a dark navy.

A closeup view of four small skeins of hand dyed six ply hemp yarn laid out on a small well worn side table im Kelli's studio. The colors are a sandy gold, a medium blue, a dark navy and a silvery driftwood grey.

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

All of my hand dyed warp yarn has now been wound for the Samhain themed towels! Three of my weft skeins needed 2nd layers of dye which have been applied and they are now batching. The rest are rinsed and drying. Hoping to be on loom in the next couple of days! #weaving

A closeup view of a hand dyed warp on a Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom that is flipped over into it's warping board configuration. The yarn is eight two hemp and organic cotton that has been dyed a light cool grey and then speckle overdyed.

An upward angled view of a corner in Kelli's studio. The hand dyed hemp and organic cotton yarn warp chains for their next towel warp are hanging from the skeinwinder. Some chains are a repeating handpainted gradient purple and some are a light cool grey with speckle overdye. In the background a Kromski Harp Forte rigid heddle loom is set up in it's warping board configuration. A black mannequin torso named Sheila and part of an Ashford Traditional spinning wheel are also visible.

A closeup view of the hand dyed warp chains hanging from Kelli's skein winder.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Union that reps the musicians on Kimmel: “This is not complicated — this is State censorship, happening in 🇺🇸… a direct attack on free speech… we stand with all those who will be out of work because of government overreach.”

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Kelli @lladyllama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This month is just packed. Trying to cram in some face time with my people before the weather turns too cold to meet outdoors. Important health appts. I also have big work goals this month. As always the spoon math is maddening. Got some weft yarns dyed today but feeling pretty wiped. #chroniclife

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