I’ve just done a very successful swap. I had a 16S Harris table loom that is very heavy, takes up a lot of floor space in my studio and isn’t used much. I suddenly decided that I needed to sell it and buy an 8S table loom that folds away, so that my students don’t find it so daunting, and I have space available when it’s not being used. Then I started thinking about the logistics of selling one and buying the other and frankly, it felt like a weight was landing on my shoulders! Just the thought of it made me want to abandon the idea.
Then I had a little brainwave! What about a swap? No money changes hands, someone gets a more sophisticated loom that can do far more in the way of complex weaves, and I get a loom that my students will be happy using, that gives me the floor space I need when I want it.
My husband thought I was a little cuckoo – after all, downsizing 16 shafts for 8 when you’re a self-confessed shaftaholic seems a little bizarre – but I don’t actually use this loom much myself – it’s way too slow for my multi-shaft weaving, and it’s very heavy trying to transport it for the occasional workshops that I attend. I could see where he was coming from. After all, I did pay £700 for this loom just a few years ago. Probably way too much, but I needed it for something and that was the only one around that I could get to…
And now I wanted to swap it for something at least half the monetary value. He has a point. So I asked him if he’d like to take over the transactions… Suddenly there were no more objections.
So I went to the Virtual Market part of the UK Online Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers, and posted the information in the For Sale part as a swap. I got three responses, one of which matched my requirements, and we did the swap, meeting midway (roughly) in a motorway service station car park today just before it started raining – again!!
So there are two people who are happy with the win-win transaction and no money to mess things up! I like swaps…
Now, is there anyone out there with a TC-1 computer jacquard handloom to swap with a 1930s industrial jacquard powerloom????? We could go halves on transport costs!!
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