Category: cotton yarn
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Profile
In yesterday’s post I mentioned the yarn ‘profile’ as being sawtoothed, and I began to wonder if people would know what I was referring to. So I worried about it for a while and decided the best thing to do was manipulate the image a bit. And, while I was at it, see if…
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Change One Thing
When I say ‘change one thing, everything can change’ some people don’t realize that they are actually changing anything when they change brands of yarn. Or if they don’t understand that the way yarn has been spun will impact the quality of their cloth. Or the experience during weaving. Let’s look at some yarn…
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Potential
I’ve talked about my resources before, my ‘libraries’ of drafts that I can browse through, evaluate for their potential for being the ‘next’ warp in the queue. The one open is the latest, the draft I’m using being the one partially covered by the blue arrow. The booklet is called The Fanciest Twills by Irene…
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Potential
I’ve talked about my resources before, my ‘libraries’ of drafts that I can browse through, evaluate for their potential for being the ‘next’ warp in the queue. The one open is the latest, the draft I’m using being the one partially covered by the blue arrow. The booklet is called The Fanciest Twills by Irene…
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Potential
I’ve talked about my resources before, my ‘libraries’ of drafts that I can browse through, evaluate for their potential for being the ‘next’ warp in the queue. The one open is the latest, the draft I’m using being the one partially covered by the blue arrow. The booklet is called The Fanciest Twills by Irene…
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Best Before
Took a while to rev my engine yesterday, but did finally manage to start beaming the next warp. The last time I worked with this black yarn (purchased in, oh, 1997 or somewhere about there, sitting in darkened store room since then) was for a warp a couple of months ago. During beaming there were…
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Those Pesky Numbers
The above photo is in black and white because it shows the difference between American open end spun 8/2 cotton (below) and ring spun 2/8 cotton (above) more clearly. Those numbers are used, these days, interchangeably although they do actually have meaning beyond the obvious – 2/8 (and 8/2) cotton is spun to the imperial…
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Little by Little
blue yarn all used up (except a bit on a tube) next colour With about 6700+ yards per pound, this yarn* gives a lot of playtime for what it costs. Peg asked if I use it doubled or single. I use it single at 32 epi (more or less, depending on weft and weave structure)…
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Little by Little
blue yarn all used up (except a bit on a tube) next colour With about 6700+ yards per pound, this yarn* gives a lot of playtime for what it costs. Peg asked if I use it doubled or single. I use it single at 32 epi (more or less, depending on weft and weave structure)…
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Wabasso Yarn
In 1959 Wabasso Cotton bought its competition in Welland and Wood’s Manufacturing became a branch plant of Wabasso of Toronto. The entire processing of raw cotton was done at the Welland plant. Denim cloth was now manufactured in Welland where five hundred looms were dedicated to the process. Wabasso was Canada’s only supplier of denim cloth…