Louet Octado weaving loom

The Octado is an 8-shaft dobby loom in Louët's dobby collection and is especially attractive for people who find weaving on 8 shafts sufficient, but prefer not to have to deal with tying up treadles.

What is a dobby?

A dobby is a programmable shaft selector. Weaving on a dobby is attractive because you no longer have to worry about choosing the shaft combinations during weaving. You also no longer have to tie the treadles under the loom. A dobby is not a weaving machine like those used in industry. Setting up the warp and weaving is the same process as with the other handweaving looms. All the dobby does is select the shafts. You can choose between a mechanical or an electronic dobby system.

With the mechanical dobby you 'program' the shaft selection with pegs on program bars. These program bars form a chain that is attached to the loom. An additional treadle is used to select the next program bar during weaving. With complex patterns and block patterns, you will need many program bars. In that case, the computer dobby may be a better choice.

With the electronic dobby interface, the length of the liftplan is unlimited – meaning an unlimited number of virtual program bars. This is particularly useful if you weave a lot of block patterns and with patterns where pattern wefts and tabby alternate. The electronic dobby interface of the Octado is connected with a USB cable to a computer with the Windows or Apple operating systems. On Apple Mac computers, the internal USB to serial conversion applied in the octado electronic dobby does not support macOS Big Sur. Your Windows computer must have 3rd party weaving software with a dobby module and Louet dobby driver. You have to purchase this software yourself. Widely used are Fiberworks PCW, Weavepoint, Pixeloom, ProWeave.

Dimensions and weight:
- Octavo 70: 115 x 99 x 127 cm, 45kg
- Octavo 90: 135 x 99 x 127 cm, 48kg
- Octavo 110: 155 x 99 x 127cm, 53kg

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All our looms include free delivery to mainland Portugal, mainland Spain and the rest of the European Union. Shipping costs to the Azores and Madeira will be calculated according to the size of the boxes and the specific destination.
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