Abstract: A beater reed with stub shafts projecting outwardly from its upper end for engagement in any of a series of notches in stanchions of a loom. The reed has a series of spaced-apart bars providing slots therebetween, each bar having a central opening through it. One side of the reed has flat coplanar bar surfaces, while the other side has an angularly extending vertex portion below each slot and each hole. The bar is reversible for use in either of two different types of beating.

Abstract: A weaving loom. A mid-beam subassembly includes a pair of horizontal supports, one secured to each of a spaced-apart pair of uprights, and supporting between them a cloth beam and a sectional warp beam. Both beams have, at one end, a handle and a ratchet wheel engageable by a pawl pivotally mounted to a support. The warp beam has a series of rails carrying section-defining dowels. A top-beam subassembly comprises a pair of horizontal supports, one secured to each pair of uprights, each having a forward portion longer than its back portion. A stationary cylindrical breast beam joins the forward portions, and a stationary cylindrical back beam joins the back portions. A pair of upright stanchions have three vertically spaced apart notches apiece. A server rail joins the lower ends of the stanchions, and an accessory bar joins the stanchions near their upper ends.