Loom specific Accessories
Bench - The Louët loom bench is 22.5" tall and is not adjustable. It is simply a well sized loom bench, with no added attachments or functionality. It is the Louët recommended bench for the Spring, David and Jane looms.
Sectional warping kit - This is an attachment to your main warp beam. The kit contains for wooden slats that screw onto your beam. You also get metal clips that fit into the pre-drilled holes of the slats. These clips are spaced every inch or leave out every other clip, and you have 2-inch sections. This product is common for The Spring 2, David 3, Megado and Octado looms.
2nd Warp beam - The 2nd warpbeam fits below the main beam of the back beam section. You can see the image below showing the beam in place. The ratchet brake system has a manual release so you will have to get up and release the brake on each warp advance.
Extra treadles - The Spring can accommodate 14 treadles. If you have a 12 shaft loom, then you have 14 treadles. If you have an 8 shaft loom, you can add 4 treadles. Treadles are sold in packages of 2.
Additional treadles are handy to allow you greater patterning possibilities.
Leg Extension/Lift Kit - The David 3 and Spring 2 share a kit that is designed to help a weaver with tie ups. It lifts the loom 12" off the floor so that you can sit on a small stool to do your tie ups, instead of crawling on the floor. The kit does require some assistance in that you must lift the loom, one side at a time, in order to attach the legs.
The image below is of the Spring 2 loom, but it fits on the David 3 as well.
Heddles - The Louët Spring 2 uses 392 heddles, the same as the Louët Megado. Louët offers both standard white heddles, that come with your loom, or colored heddles in 6 colors.
The original Spring 1 loom uses 390 heddles - 2mm shorter. in approximately 2015, Louët changed their Spring loom heddle size to the 392 so they only needed 1 size between the 2 looms. Texsolv makes 392 heddles exclusively for Louët . Mixing 392 and 390 heddles is not recommended, but can be done, knowing you will lose 2-4mm of shed size.
Reeds - Reeds are available in metric and imperial sizes Spring looms use 90 or 110cm reeds, however, since the beater is open ended, longer reeds can easily be accommodated. Reeds of varying heights will also fit in your Spring loom.
As you can see if you click on the Buy Now button, Lofty Fiber offers a wide variety of reeds for many looms, lengths and dent sizes.
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