As Louet's flagship loom, the Megado is desiged for serious weavers seeking advanced performance and innovative features.
This multi-harness dobby loom ensures light treadling, thanks to its countermarch shed system and balanced treadle mechanism. The loom's structure also compensates for changes in warp tension, enhancing weaving precision and ease.
Thanks to this system developed by Louet, in which the back beam rises, a large shed is created with equal tension on the upper and lower threads. Treadling is very light, even when selecting a large number of shafts. Our friction brake can be released while sitting at the loom. Built from lacquered ash   hardwood, the Megado's engineering not only ensures smooth operation but also provides a sleek and professional appearance.
Adjustable features, like the main treadle and optional weaving bench, accommodate different physical needs for maximum comfort. Like the Octado, the Megado includes the Louet floating breast beam for optimal warp tension control. No other multi-harness loom can match the Megado's ability to to create large sheds with light treadling, even under high warp tension,.
The Megado can be equipped with the Computer Dobby 2.0. This updated electronic control for the Louet Megado was feveloped in 2016 and makes the dobby system less dependent on weaving software and computer operating systems.
The Dobby 2.0 is a small wooden cabinet that hands on the right side of the loom, I side it has a mini computer that controls the shaft selection of the dobby mechanism, Via a WiFi connection between the dobby and your tablet/laptop, you use a web browser to view the built in proprietary Dobby 2.0 web interface softeare, that drives your loom during weaving and, if necessary, make adjustments to the shaft selection pattern.
You can also load weaving pattern on your Dobby. Simply sace your pattern as a WIF file in lift plan format, to a USB stick. Plug the USB stick into the Dobby 2.0 and use the built in file management tools to run and or save the file. As with the earlier electronic Dobby's it is still possible to connect the Dobby 2.0 to a computer with a USB serial-cable connection.
Unfortunately, since MAC's Big Sur, the USB serial cable connectionis no longer supported for Big-Sur and newer, another reason why we developed the Louet proprietary software Dobby 2.0 web interface.
Megado is available with 16 or 32 harnesses and in 40,70,90,110 & 130 cm weaving widths. You can choose between a mechanical and electronic dobby,
On delivery, the complex castle section is already pre-assembled.
Included are: a large shelf, built in raddle, a stainless steel reed (40-10 (10dpi), 900 to 1700 premounted heddles, (390 mm), lease and tie-up sticks and 16 warp sticks.