AVL Looms Jacq3G, User Manual

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Introductory Information Jacq3G Loom User’s Manual
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NTRODUCTION
About AVL
AVL Looms has been in the business of designing and building some of the
world’s finest handweaving looms since 1977.
Jim Ahrens had been building and designing looms for a number of years
before Jon Violette, the “V” in AVL, approached Ahrens about a partnership
in 1977. Violette, an industrial management professional, had discovered
Ahrens’ work through his sister who ran the Pacific Basin School of Textiles
in Berkeley, where Ahrens was a volunteer advisor.
The two men worked together in the Bay Area for three years until Violette
moved Ahrens and Violette Looms to Chico, where it officially became known
as AVL Looms Inc., and has operated ever since.
In 1982, Violette was instrumental in the development of the first
computerized dobby, then called the “Apple Dobby”. He retired from active
life in the company in 1987.
Once known for our production looms, AVL has broadened its line
considerably and we now offer customers a full spectrum of fine weaving
equipment, ranging from our small Home Looms, to our Industrial Dobby
Looms, Rug Looms, and Jacquards.
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EATURES
The AVL Jacq3G is the ideal jacquard loom for designers, educational
institutions, production hand weavers and artists. Whether weaving samples,
production fabric or works of art, Jacq3G yields unprecedented design
freedom and the latitude to create an unlimited variety of motifs and
fabrics.
Like all jacquards, Jacq3G enables individual control over each thread,
yielding the equivalent of an unlimited number of "harnesses". The design
possibilities are endless.
The Jacq3G uses the same frame as the A-series loom and has most of the
same weaving options.