Loom rooms with a view.

From: Sunset | Date: November 1, 1987 | Copyright information

Loom rooms with a view

When you spend hours sitting in one spot, you want something diverting to look at. When you work with thousands of tiny threads, you want plenty of light and a simple system to help organize the potentially maddening minutiae. That's why the two weavers shown here commissioned architects to design loom rooms. Their solutions are remarkably similar.

Pictured above in the upper-story weaving room of her Manzanita, Oregon, beach house, de...

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