I have just taken delivery of a new loom - but it's all in pieces! Scandinavian flatpack..... The loom is a Toika from Finland and I chose the 16 shaft Llisa model with computer dobby. It arrived beautifully packed in a large wooden pallet box which for some reason had been put on top of a standard pallet which was too small to properly hold the box. However with the aid of some extra strapping and a bit of muscle power from my neighbour we managed to get the box across the gravel driveway and into the loomshed. I had read somewhere online that it needed a crowbar to open the box, so I was prepared for that. But there were two steel straps tensioned around the crate. Fortunately my side-snip wire cutters were up to the job and I managed to chew through the straps and set to work with the crowbar. Inside, all the pieces were well wrapped, anchored and secured so it took a good hour or so just to unpack the box. At the end of that there was an enormous pile of polystyrene