Peg loom

Abstract

A peg loom is composed of a frame having a series of detents for receiving end portions of elongated pegs, and a notched cross member spaced form the series of detents to maintain the pegs in parallel relationship to one another during the weaving process. The cross member can be used as a comb to move a weft structure along the pegs periodically as weaving progresses and the notches in the cross member have resilient protrusions that maintain the cross member in engagement with the notches during the movement of the weft structure. A threading tool is provided for threading warp yarns to eyes at the ends of the elongated pegs and also for threading a weft yarn onto a tubular weaving guide. The threading tool includes a loop which is retracted for storage by a movable bead.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A peg loom comprising:
 a frame having a face side facing in a first direction, a back side facing in a second direction opposite said first direction, a front edge having first and second opposite ends, a rear edge also having first and second opposite ends, a first side edge extending from said first end of the front edge to said first end of the rear edge, and a second side edge in opposed spaced relation to said first side edge and extending from the second end of the front edge to the second end of the rear edge;   a set of parallel pegs each having first and second opposite ends, and each having a warp yarn-receiving eye in the form of a transverse opening adjacent its first end;   a row of uniformly spaced peg-receiving detents extending along and adjacent said front edge of the frame, each detent removably receiving the said first end of one of said parallel elongated pegs said detents holding said first ends of said parallel elongated pegs in uniformly spaced relationship to one another, said peg-receiving detents including surfaces engageable by said pegs for limiting movement of said pegs in the direction from said rear edge toward said front edge;   a cross-member in fixed relation to said frame, said cross-member being located closer than said peg-receiving detents to said rear edge of the frame, said cross-member extending parallel to said row of detents from a location adjacent said first side edge to a location adjacent said second side edge, said cross member including a row of uniformly spaced peg-receiving notches open in said first direction, for releasably holding a peg whereby said elongated pegs can extend from said detents, and through said notches of the cross member, so that parts of said pegs extend in parallel relation to one another beyond said second cross member allowing a warp yarn to be woven in undulations onto the parts of said pegs extending beyond said cross member;   said cross member having a surface, facing toward said front edge of the frame, and engageable with a weft yarn woven onto said pegs for holding said weft yarn while the weft is repositioned on said pegs and while the warp yarns extending through eyes of said parallel pegs are pulled by said pegs through the undulations of the warp yarn by relative movement of the pegs and said frame.   
     
     
         2 . The peg loom according to  claim 1 , in which each of said notches has at least one resilient protrusion for resisting movement of a peg out of the notch. 
     
     
         3 . The peg loom according to  claim 1 , further comprising a locking member removably connectible to said frame at locations adjacent said first and second side edges, said locking member, when connected to said frame at said locations, extending between said detents and said cross member, maintaining said pegs in said peg-receiving notches of the second cross member. 
     
     
         4 . The peg loom according to  claim 1 , further including grips on the back side of the frame for temporarily holding a tubular weaving tool. 
     
     
         5 . The peg loom according to  claim 1 , further including grips on the back side of the frame for temporarily holding a threading tool. 
     
     
         6 . A threading tool for pulling yarn though a tubular weaving tool for use with a peg loom, said threading tool comprising a hollow tube having first and second opposite ends and an elongated cylindrical interior space, a bead disposed in, and movable along, said cylindrical interior space, stops adjacent said opposite ends for maintaining said bead in said interior space, an opening in said first of said opposite ends and a through hole in said bead, and a flexible strand having an end portion formed into a loop external to said hollow tube and having two parallel portions extending from said loop through said opening into said interior space and through said through hole in the bead said parallel portions being connected together by a knot larger than the hole in said bead to prevent said parallel portions from disengaging from said bead, and said knot being spaced sufficiently from said loop that the loop can remain outside said tube when the bead is engaged by the stop adjacent said second opposite end of the hollow tube, whereby a major part of the length of the flexible strand can be retracted, by inertial movement of the bead, into the hollow tube for storage of the tool.