By Deb Lane
I have been weaving on my drawloom for several years now, but kind of went into it backwards so I had a very steep learning curve with lots of frustrations and challenges. So I signed up for Joanne Hall's "Drawn In by Drawloom" workshop held at Lamms End Studio. In this workshop, five drawlooms were set up for five different techniques that could be woven with a drawloom, or woven "drawloom-style" using a jack loom. 
What I thought was really great and, for me, a definite bonus was that one of the looms just did not want to do what it was set up to do, so Joanne and Paula spent time triaging the loom to get it set up the way they wanted it.
A total learning experience on how to identify an issue and different ways to get around problems incurred when setting up the drawloom. For me, this was a highlight because I have had so many different issues when I set up my drawloom
and now I have a much better idea of how to get my loom set up the way I want it to and how to fix glitches that come up! Right there, totally worth the cost of the workshop!
Our mornings began with a lecture, with samples and explanations of the various types of weaving we would be doing on the looms as well as detailed instructions. We wove round robin-style, which was an absolute must for this particular workshop. Throughout each day of the workshop, we would gather around a particular loom and Joanne would discuss with us the intent behind the way the loom was set up and how to make the best use of it.
Of the various looms that were set up, one loom was set up for Opphamta, which is a form of pickup - using long eyed heddles and half heddle sticks for the pickup.
A second loom was set up for (what I call) traditional drawloom: you have ground shafts (at the front of the loom) to weave your ground "fabric" and pattern shafts (behind the ground shafts) which weave the pattern you have designed (think plain weave or basic twill as your background and trees or flowers as your pattern).
A third loom was set for Smalandsvav, which is set up opposite of the way you typically set up a pattern drawloom: The ground weave 
shafts are in the back of the loom, with the pattern shafts towards the front of the loom.
The fourth loom was also set up as a drawloom with the ground shafts at the front of the loom, directly behind the beater and the pattern shafts behind the ground shafts with the pattern shafts running at a diagonal -- many, many designs can be woven with this simple set up! This loom was set up with wool.
And two looms were set up as single unit drawlooms. This type of loom tends to be my favorite!
You have your ground shafts at the front of the loom, which weave your background or ground cloth (again, think plain weave, twill or damask) you can use pattern shafts to weave your main design, and pulls to lift individual units of threads to create individual designs. The dark green weft shows the ground weave; the frogs and waves were woven with the pattern shafts and the flies were woven with the single units.
3 of the Samples from the workshop
What I love about drawloom weaving is your patterns and the designs woven can be limitless ... as far as your imagination can take you!
An excellent learning experience. Thank you for the scholarship!
