posted 2 years ago
If, like Cheryl's, yours has the BRIO logo on the front, that tells me it was designed as a high quality, table-top, educational 'toy'. I put toy in ' ', because the quality of pretty much everything from that company is good enough to serve as much more than a toy, to be cast aside, in an old toybox, in the attic. I used to sell BRIO, at a (now defunct, at least in the USA) UK-based educational toy store that also sold other pricey brands recognized instantly, by devoted homeschoolers and other 'only the best for MY child' parents, with the money to back it up. So, while not a top weaver's brand, it is still a decent, serviceable loom that will likely help you decide whether you enjoy it enough to want to invest in something better. Nice find - I'm kinda jealous. I've long wished I'd been able to afford one, back when I had a decent discount, but for now, I'm working on my spinning & nålbinding, and have an awesome friend who is happy to loan one to me (& owns more looms than she likes to admit).
"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato