about us

I'm an artist and a maker who designed the boomloom during the pandemic as a way to make weaving more intuitive and expressive, and to close the gap between the craft and the art. Probably I also wanted to hijack our smartphone compulsions by putting something tactile and analog in our hands. I’m at work on a couple new versions, which I hope to have out by the end of 2023.

about the loom

The patent-pending boomloom is an adaptation of an old technology, the rotating heddle bar, fixing it into a little one-piece frame. The heddle bar forms the shed — the space between the warp threads — so you don’t have to pass the yarn in and out, just back and forth through the shed. Keeper slots capture the beginning and end of the warp thread to make stringing easy. EPI (ends per inch) is about 6.

The loom is made simply from six parts in aluminum, beech and maple, no screws or fasteners. I assemble and finish the looms in my workspace behind the home I share with my husband and kids in Jersey City, NJ (that’s it in the pic below). We've sold looms to customers all over the world including France, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Alaska, Los Angeles, Guam, London, Colorado, New Zealand, Brooklyn, Switzerland, and Salt Lake City. We also sell at the Whitney Museum Shop and the Cooper Hewitt Museum Shop in NYC!

Any questions or feedback? Reach out! You can write me at lauren@theboomloom.com. You can also find us on instagram @boomloomstudio and youtube @theboomloom.