Structo heaven

I first learned about Structo looms at FIT. I took the TD 131 Woven Design class and got intimate with a Structo Artcraft 240. And then I was obsessed. I joined the all_things_structo yahoo group, with a wealth of information.

Searched eBay and found one! It had a weaving on it, there was a newspaper wrapped around the cloth beam that referenced 1948. I carefully photographed everything before I removed the very old and brown weaving. The famous structo warp spools had a lot of warp left, so I unwound until I got to clean fiber and re-tied the warp. I am on my way.

A couple weeks later I got a message from all_things_structo there was a "600" on eBay that looked pretty good. I checked that it was close enough (70 mmiles) and hit the "Buy Now". 4.5 hours later I had a very dirty and rusty Structo Artcraft 600. I spend the next week taking it apart, cleaning, painting, refinishing and reassembling. And she's a beauty.