quest for crofter tartan loom reenactment

[DCampbell16B]

Too bad you are in NH. I have a loom I'm looking to part with similar to the one in your illustration where the weaver sits inside the loom. Per the weavers at the Cooperstown Farmers Museum it is c1790. It is taken down now.

[NHhighlander]

Field trip! (let me contact you by PM)

Too bad you are in NH.

Oh no! It's great to be in NH!

[OC Richard]

I would think Peter would be your man!

How cool a project, please keep us updated. I've love to hear about your experiences!

Your beart-mhor sent me scrambling for my Gaelic dictionary.

Mor means big or great of course, so I wondered where the "wood" came in.

Beart is a general term meaning a device, machine, or gear of many sorts (loom, plough, harness, even sword-sheath and a ship's rigging) thus beart-mhor would be "big device" more or less.

Beart-fhigheadair "weaving machine" is what is given for "loom" (and clarifies a certain screen name).

I love these linguistic rabbit-holes.

[NHhighlander]

Beart is a general term meaning a device, machine, or gear of many sorts (loom, plough, harness, even sword-sheath and a ship's rigging) thus beart-mhor would be "big device" more or less.

Sigh I confess I relied on the "translation" offered by the author of the website I came across, though, trully, Gaelic-English is hard to "sanity check."
But oh so fun. Among the translations I have been offered right now are "big deal (Irish)," "big bang," and "great wealth." But I certainly like more "big machine," with that sweet semantic of "device," as in multi-part tool or "art," "metier" in legacy French, when referring to a complex tool.

clarifies a certain screen name

Oh, I get it now! Elegant.

I love these linguistic rabbit-holes.

I must admit that I have the hardest time keeping my attention on the Pastor during the Sunday sermon. My escape is to find something that "sounds odd," in some Bible verse being shared, and use the cellphone to dig into the Koine - at least I'm "on topic," and it helps that we sit in the very last row so I'm not distracting or discouraging others or myself. This week, it was "master builder," as found in 1 Corithians 3:10, that tickled my papillae. Turns out that the Greek said ἀρχιτέκτων, "architekton," so far so good, "architect." Then, τέκτων itself is represented to be mostly "mason," or more precisely "carpenter," this last present in Scripture as in "the son of the carpenter."
Yet, the semantic universe for tekton found in secular writings is wider, maker, craftsman, a dedicated artisan... I like that!


Oh yes, I'll be reporting back!

so far, last Friday I purchased a loom, very first time in my life that I get to work with heddles. So I'm now enjoying all those noob mistakes, like having to undo inch and a half because I did the wrong color change Life is good.

I do have a question for someone who likes nuances of language in Scot Gaelic. I would want to be able to express a sequence of four, kind of "foursome of," "set of four." The basis of the twill 2/2 weave is sequences of four. I'm finding this whole exercise to be deep into maths, based on events happening in a four-based sequence. Would you have a suggestion? some languages like words talking about quantities.
We have "dozen," but that's about it, after "pair."