Norwegian Band Looms.

Band weaving with rigid heddles (or with string heddles) is a wonderful technique - it's relatively easy, quick, and versatile, and if you like patterns, there's always the possibility to do pick-up patterns or insert some extra heddles. Small wonder that there's a lot of band weaving implements in folk museums...

The North, especially, seems to be a place for beautiful bands and, consequently, for looms and other weaving tools. There was a discussion on the Braids and Bands mailing list a few days ago about a certain form of band loom, the Norwegian cradle loom, and Mari Voipio did the list a favour and made a public list of the looms in the Digitalt Museum (thank you Mari!). You can find the list here - it contains a lot of looms, and there is also a very interesting video about band weaving included.