Genevieve's Journeys

This is the most useful instruction-ey item I've found so far online: a 8 min video of warping up a rigid heddle backstrap, in the park no less.
Seems the instructor in question is a wandering textile artist of sorts...
"I am an internationally exhibited interactive textile artist, currently based in San Francisco (Berlin in May!)
I advocate for alternative economic and pedagogical models through a craft-based relational art practice."
Sounds very California. :-)
However, he's the most straightforward and helpful I've found so far.
Local (as in all of London's networked public) library has one book about rigid heddle weaving. Hackney's come a long way from being the home of the Huguenots I guess.
This useful weaving archive, someone's labour of love, has some books about ancient looms and lots about industrial ones. Backstrap with a rigid heddle, not so much.

I can feel my craft compass spinning, looking for another lodestone, and there's a real risk it might land on narrow wares again.
Having tried tablet weaving and found it, well, not to my taste, I nevertheless find myself perusing my inkle weaving book again, looking at brocade patterns.
How hard can they be, right? I've got great instructions, right here...
But of course if I had a bigger loom than just my wee laptop model, I could make a wider band, and longer pieces, right?
While I should be confined to my bed, or at least the sofa, I find myself pondering the chances of scooting up to the Handweaver's Studio on my sick day, to fondle Ashford inkle looms, which the shop often has in stock.
(Need to go that way anyway, right? wanted to get more embroidery silks, because I do so much embroidery, yes? Right. Could have a *quick* browse of the fabric stalls while I'm there, right?)
Ebay, for once, is loom-less - just as well.

If you cannot talk me out of it...can you possibly lend me yours? A test drive may well save me the purchase...

Help.