Recently, we happened upon this fantastic article in the American Wool and Cotton Reporter, from the issue on May 14, 1903. You can view the original copy below:

Our favorite part? The section entitled “Textile School for Weavers”. This lesson closely resembles, if not exactly, our modern-day techniques for warping our fibers. You can even check [...]

They may be loud, but our antique shuttle looms are a thing of history. Compared to more modern looms that are able to do up to 2,000 weft insertions per minute, our traditional looms create about 50 inches of material per minute.

At Brahms Mount, we’re proud to be one of only a handful of U.S. [...]

Not only do we sometimes have to create extra spools for the creel, but we also have to create bobbins for the loom. Like our other machine, this one is specially designed to automatically measure how much of the fiber we need.

Watch below as Arthur shows us how it’s done!

When you have 600 combs (or spools of yarn) to fill, sometimes there just aren’t enough for the job. That’s why we have a handy dandy machine at our disposal. It takes the larger combs and re-spools it into a smaller, more manageable comb.

The machine will measure exactly how much of the fiber you need. [...]

Recently, we talked about what the creel is. Today, we’re going to talk about what happens next in a fiber’s journey to becoming a textile.

From the creel, the 600 combs are all hand fed to 600 individual reeds in the warper. The warper is responsible for the vertical fiber in the textile: the warp (the [...]

At Brahms Mount, our blankets start off as yarn on a spool (what we call combs) – pictured below. All of our material comes this way, from cotton to linen to blends. So how do we take this raw material and make blankets and throws from it?

Comb of yarn

Our process starts with the [...]