Wonder Loom is a toy
loom designed for children, used mainly as a way for them to create colorful bracelets and charms by weaving rubber bands together into
Brunnian links
In knot theory, a branch of topology, a Brunnian link is a nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops (so that no two loops can be ...
.
It was designed in 2013 by Choon's Designs LLC of
Wixom, Michigan
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The city was home to the now-demolished Wix ...
and licensed to
The Beadery Craft Products in
Hope Valley, Rhode Island
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as the exclusive manufacturer.
Description
The Wonder Loom is a plastic pegboard style loom measuring by with 3 rows of 13 pegs each. Colorful elastics are placed on the pins and then looped using a hooked picking tool. This produces strings of interconnected loops called Brunnian links, which depending on the pattern used, forms jewelry, headbands, keychains, action figures
or other shapes when removed.
The Wonder Loom kit includes a loom, which features patented channels and flanges to make the looping easier, a picking tool, C-clip fasteners and an assortment of 600 rubber bands.
History
The Wonder Loom was created by Cheong Choon Ng, also the creator of the
Rainbow Loom, when
Wal-Mart
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and other retailers requested a made-in-the-USA version of the toy.
After reworking the loom to simplify the design, Ng licensed the Wonder Loom to The Beadery Craft Products as the exclusive US manufacturer. The product became available for purchase at Wal-Mart stores on 8 November 2013 and shipped 150,000 units per week through the 2013 holiday season and into 2014.
The Wonder Loom also inspired several instructional books to be published. These include:
* ''Wonder Loom: Bracelets and Things''
* ''Rubber Band Loom Crafts''
* ''Wonder Loom: Beyond the Basics''
Since its release, new products have been added to the line including new band colors and assortments and beads and charms to attach to the bracelets. The Beadery also announced a smaller hand-held version called the HandyLoom and other new tools and accessories being revealed later in 2014.
Gallery
File:Wonder Loom bracelets.jpg, Rose Bud Bracelets
File:Wonder Loom beaded bracelet.jpg, Beaded Bracelet & Ring
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.thebeadery.com/wonderloom
Art and craft toys
2010s toys
Products introduced in 2013
Weaving equipment