Octado Loom

Product Description

Meet Megado’s little sister: all the features, but with fewer shafts.

Tired of crawling on the floor to tie up treadles? Octado is for you! Louet designs looms that are easy and comfortable to weave with, allowing weavers to sit and enjoy their craft for many hours at a time. A dobby loom allows you to avoid tie-ups and with only 8 shafts, it’s not so intimidating. Octado has all of the major features of its big sister the Megado and has one treadle, lightweight treadling and a floating breast beam system.

Dobby looms have a dobby system, which is used to program the harness combinations for the weave pattern. Dobby is short for “draw boy” which refers to the weaver’s helper who was used to control the warp thread by pulling on draw threads. The dobby mechanism replaces the treadle/lam combination of the traditional floor looms. The performance of a multi-harness loom is vastly improved by using a dobby mechanism, as it overcomes the major problems associated with the use of a large number of treadles.

A dobby loom allows you to select the combination of shafts for every shed opening you wish to make. The great advantage of a dobby loom is that it avoids the necessity and the labour involved in making multiple tie-ups to treadle positioned underneath a loom. An investment in a Louet Dobby or Electronic Interface ensures many years of comfortable and productive weaving. The Octado electronic-dobby interfaces with popular weaving software with a USB cable connection. Compatible software includes: Fiberworks PCW, Patternland, Weavemaker, Weave It, WeavePoint or Pro Weave. The Octado interface supports both PC and Mac. Design a pattern in your software and send it to your loom to weave!

The Octado loom features a counter marche shed. This is accomplished by lifting the back beam at the same time as the shafts are being lifted. The beam movement also compensates for changes in warp tension as the shed is made. An innovative construction ensures the action of the well balanced pedal to be very light in operation. This main pedal and also the optional weaving bench are adjustable in height to accommodate the weaver’s physical requirements.

Of course the Octado loom has the Louet moving breast beam, just like the Spring and Delta looms. This unique warp tension control system allows the weaver to set and check the warp tension each time the warp is advanced. These innovative design features give our Octado loom an indisputable advantage over other competitive looms. No other multi-harness loom treadles as lightly and creates as large a shed, even with a very high tension on the warp.

The Octado is made out of lacquered beech hardwood and the most complex castle section is pre-assembled. Included with the loom are a shelf and built-in raddle, a stainless steel reed 40-10 (10 dpi), 600 Texsolv heddles (330 mm), lease and tie-up sticks and sixteen warp sticks. You can choose between a mechanical dobby and an electronic interface.

Available in three sizes 

• Octado 70: 27 ½″ (70 cm) weaving width
• Octado 90: 35″ (90 cm) weaving width
• Octado 110: 43 ½” (110 cm) weaving width

Features:

• Parallel countermarch loom
• Floating breastbeam for superior tension regulation
• Light to treadle
• Built in raddle

Included with the Octado Loom are:

• Stainless steel reed 40-10 (10 dpi)
• 600/800/1200 Texsolv heddles (330 mm)
• Tie-up and lease sticks
• Sixteen warp sticks
• Assembly instructions & tools
• Warping instructions