What is the weaving width of the Schacht Wolf Pup LT?

The Wolf Pup LT weaves 18 inches wide. That covers scarves, kitchen towels, table runners, and narrow garment yardage. For projects wider than a kitchen towel, specifically bath towels, blankets, or wide cloth, you need at least the 26-inch Baby Wolf.

How much does the Schacht Wolf Pup LT cost?

The Wolf Pup LT starts at $1,963, verified at Schacht's website and Yarn.com in June 2026. Schacht sells through authorized dealers, not direct and not Amazon. Dealers include The Woolery, Yarn.com, and regional weaving shops.

Does the Wolf Pup LT fold for storage?

Yes. The X-frame folds to a 16-inch depth, narrow enough to stand behind a door or inside a closet. At 40 pounds with built-in wheels, one person can move it. The removable back beam comes off for warping and reattaches without tools. Most weavers report the fold-and-move cycle taking under five minutes.

What is the difference between the Wolf Pup and the Wolf Pup LT?

The original Wolf Pup used a 4-treadle direct tie-up system. Schacht discontinued it. The current LT uses a lamm-based system with 6 treadles, which allows more flexible harness-to-treadle combinations and a smoother treadling feel. A used original Wolf Pup will have 4 treadles; the current new loom has 6.

Can the Wolf Pup LT be upgraded to 8 shafts?

No. The Wolf Pup LT is a fixed 4-shaft loom with no upgrade path. If you want to keep the 8-shaft option open, Schacht's Baby Wolf has the Four-Now-Four-Later conversion that takes it from 4 to 8 shafts after purchase. The Wolf Pup LT trades that flexibility for a smaller footprint and lower price.

Schacht Wolf Pup LT Review: Compact 18-Inch Floor Loom

Name: Schacht Wolf Pup LT Review: Compact 18-Inch Floor Loom
Item: Schacht Wolf Pup LT
Author: The Wool Hall Team

The Schacht Wolf Pup LT is a 4-shaft, 6-treadle floor loom with an 18-inch weaving width, starting at $1,963 (verified June 2026 at Schacht’s site and Yarn.com). It folds to 16 inches deep and weighs 40 pounds. The smallest real shaft loom Schacht currently makes: enough machine for serious weaving, not enough width for every project.

Who is the Wolf Pup LT for?

The Wolf Pup LT solves one specific problem: wanting a real floor loom without the footprint a real floor loom usually requires. For weavers who weave primarily narrow things, or who genuinely cannot store a 26-inch loom, it delivers fully functional shaft weaving in a package that disappears behind a door.

Three buyer profiles where it makes real sense. The first is the apartment weaver: someone who can’t store a larger loom but doesn’t want to stop at rigid heddle. The second is the narrow-width specialist: anyone whose primary output is scarves, kitchen towels, and table runners by choice. The third is the weaver who already owns a larger loom and wants a second warp station or sample loom that does not occupy studio real estate permanently.

The Wolf Pup LT is not the right answer for someone who thinks they might want more width eventually. That instinct is usually correct. If there is any realistic chance your projects will run wider than 18 inches within a few years, start with the Baby Wolf and skip the intermediate step.

An 18th-century wooden floor loom from Crete with two harnesses, showing heddles suspended from the harness frames, warp threads running through, and the beater with its reed — A two-harness floor loom from 18th-century Crete: heddles on the harnesses, warp running through the reed, beater ready to beat the weft. The fundamental mechanism is the same on the Wolf Pup LT, three centuries and significant engineering refinement later. The key components (harnesses, heddles, beater, treadles) work identically at 18 inches as they do on a 60-inch production loom. *SEN Heritage Looms (Sophia Tsourinaki) via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.*

What does 18 inches of weaving width actually get you?

More than most weavers use regularly, and less than some assume.

Scarves run 6 to 8 inches on most projects. The Wolf Pup’s 18-inch width is more than double what you actually need. You could set up two narrow scarf warps side by side.

Kitchen towels are the closer call. Standard kitchen towels measure 14 to 16 inches on the loom after draw-in. The Wolf Pup handles them. Most weavers report comfortable margins at typical draw-in. A few, working thick setts or particularly high draw-in, find it snug. The towels weave; the margin is just tighter.

Table runners, wall hangings, lap-width samplers, and narrow garment panels all work without compromise. Anything you’d normally describe as narrow fits.

What does not fit without seaming: bath towels (24 to 27 inches finished), blankets of any useful width, wide garment fabric, or any single-width project you’d describe as broad. For those, 26 inches is the minimum. The best rigid heddle looms guide covers the full width decision at the entry level for reference; the same logic applies when choosing between floor loom widths.

To-scale footprint chart: the Wolf Pup LT folds to 16 inches deep and weaves 18 inches wide, both well under a 32-inch interior doorway, while the Baby Wolf weaves 26 inches wide — Drawn to scale, the folded loom matches a standard closet shelf and clears a 32-inch doorway with room to spare, which is the whole point of choosing the Wolf Pup LT over a wider loom. *Wool Hall original diagram.*

How does the Wolf Pup LT fold, and where does it go?

The folded depth is 16 inches. That is the number to test against your storage: 16 inches is the depth of a standard closet shelf, the gap between a sofa and most walls, and the width of the narrow corridor behind a door. The loom fits most of those spaces. A 26-inch Baby Wolf folded is noticeably larger.

At 40 pounds, it is not featherweight, but it rolls. The wheels are built in, not optional. One person can tip it back and roll it across a room without warping or disassembling. The back beam comes off for warping and goes back on without tools. The fold-and-move cycle is fast enough that weavers who store it between projects do it routinely rather than avoiding it.

The X-frame design keeps the loom stable when assembled. Weavers who own both the Wolf Pup LT and a larger loom consistently report that treadling on the Wolf Pup feels solid, not lightweight. The compact frame does not translate to a wobbly experience.

Close-up of colorful warp threads wound under tension on a wooden floor loom, showing the parallel arrangement of warp ends before threading through heddles and reed — Warp under tension: each thread runs a fixed path from the back beam, through its heddle on one of the four harnesses, then through the reed in the beater. On the Wolf Pup LT, an 18-inch-wide warp like this one holds anywhere from a few dozen threads at a coarse sett to 180 or more at a fine sett. The warp path is identical to any 4-shaft floor loom; the width is just narrower. *Karola G (kaboompics.com) via Pexels. Pexels License.*

What comes with the Wolf Pup LT?

One stainless steel reed in the dent of your choice: 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, or 20 dents per inch. Choose at order time. The 8-dent is the most versatile starting point for the range of commercial weaving yarns. The 10-dent is a reasonable alternative if your projects lean toward medium-weight worsted.

300 inserted-eye heddles. These are the heddles that your warp threads run through on the harnesses. 300 is enough for most warping scenarios on an 18-inch loom at moderate sett; a fine-sett warp at high thread counts may require additional heddles bought separately.

A Treadle Tracker, which is Schacht’s name for a small clipboard that mounts on the back of the castle. It holds your threading draft at eye level while you thread or weave. The description sounds minor; the practical impact is that you stop losing your place in the draft.

Two lease sticks and three apron bars. These are standard equipment, included in sufficient quantity for a typical warp setup.

A height extender is available separately if you are taller than approximately 5 feet 6 inches. It raises the loom 2 inches and adjusts the treadle geometry accordingly. Schacht recommends it explicitly for taller weavers. Buy it at the same time as the loom; retrofitting ergonomic problems later is always more annoying than ordering the part upfront.

The loom does not include a bench. The Schacht Maple Loom Bench is the commonly paired option. Any adjustable weaving bench works.

A wooden loom with a shuttle resting in the shed, showing the stick shuttle and weft yarn path through the open shed between raised and lowered warp threads — The shuttle carrying weft thread through the shed: this is the core motion of floor loom weaving, repeated for every pick across the warp. The Wolf Pup LT does not include a shuttle in the box; a basic stick shuttle runs about $10 to $15 from any weaving retailer and lasts indefinitely. The boat shuttle shown here is a more common choice for production weaving, as it carries a bobbin of yarn and throws more easily on longer throws. *Pramilach via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.*

How does the Wolf Pup LT compare to the Baby Wolf?

The two numbers: 8 inches of weaving width and approximately $423 separate the Wolf Pup LT from the entry Baby Wolf.

The Baby Wolf starts at 26 inches and $2,386 (verified June 2026). The Wolf Pup LT is 18 inches and $1,963. For a first floor loom where you are uncertain about the width you will need, the Baby Wolf is the more common recommendation from the guild and retailer community. The 8 extra inches turn out to matter more than most new floor-loom buyers expect, because a significant portion of the projects you will want to make at some point sit right at or above the Wolf Pup’s 18-inch limit.

The Baby Wolf also has Schacht’s Four-Now-Four-Later upgrade path, which converts the 4-shaft Baby Wolf to 8 shafts. The Wolf Pup LT has no equivalent. If you have any interest in 8-shaft weaving in the next five years, the Baby Wolf is the more durable investment.

The Wolf Pup LT wins on compact storage and price. If you know your projects stay narrow, or if the storage constraint is real rather than speculative, those two advantages are the entire decision.

A full side-by-side comparison with footprint tables and a per-buyer routing guide is in the Baby Wolf review.

Is the Wolf Pup LT worth $1,963?

At $1,963, the Wolf Pup LT costs less than most entry-to-mid floor looms from comparable makers. Schacht builds it from maple and oak with the same standards as their larger looms. Owner reports from Ravelry and guild forums, where the original Wolf Pup has been in use since the early 2000s, consistently describe looms lasting decades without structural issues. You are not paying for a beginner’s loom that you will need to replace in materials quality.

What you might replace it for is width. If you buy the Wolf Pup LT expecting to eventually weave wider cloth, you will sell it and buy a Baby Wolf or Louet David within a few years. If you buy it knowing the width ceiling, or because apartment storage makes the trade a real one, you will keep it.

The loom is sold through authorized Schacht dealers. The Woolery and Yarn.com both stock it. Both showed some backorder delay at time of writing (June 2026). Lead times vary; order early if you have a project in mind.

For weavers still earlier in the process: the rigid heddle first project guide and Ashford rigid heddle review represent the lower-cost entry path. If you have woven on a rigid heddle and know you want shafts, the Wolf Pup LT is the next step for narrow-width work.