Dear people who use #warpWeightedLoom : how noisy are they?

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

Dear people who use #warpWeightedLoom : how noisy are they?

I've seen videos of human-powered mechanical looms and there is quite a bit of *clack* noise when it's used, and I have some experience with backstrap looms where the moving parts are mostly soft and there isn't a significant noise.

Are the warp weighted ones somewhere in between? do the weights hit each other? Anything else that isn't soft hitting some other hard part?

Would it be possible to have somebody read a book in a room with a few looms in use, for the weavers to listen to, or would it be hard to hear them?

maybe @mlemweb knows?

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

As for the *why* I need¹ to know this, I'm not overthinking the worldbuilding for a piece of smut.

I've resigned myself to the idea that I will never write said smut, and this is purely an exercise in SFW worldbuilding porn :D

it helps me fall asleep. when I don't get stuck on this kind of questions I don't know the answers for :D

¹ FSVO need