Category: linen
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Unseen Forces
Thinking about ‘unseen forces’ in weaving, it’s time to remind people that if you live in an arid climate, or more especially, one where the relative humidity swings seasonally, you may run afoul of the issue of low humidity in the air. When that happens, things go ‘wrong’ and it may be difficult to…
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Flax vs Cotton
Fabric Science 7th edition page 23 cotton (left) and flax (right) Textile Science 2nd edition page 51 flax A while ago I was reading an article about a new discovery that placed humans working with fibres back even further than we thought previously. Textiles tend to degrade and discoveries were rare, or were dismissed…
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Textures
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve woven this design and I had (sort of) forgotten the tendency of the cloth to develop quite a lot of ‘texture’ during wet finishing. I know people tend to say that ‘tracking’ only happens in plain weave, but the phenomenon of tracking will happen to other…
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Textures
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve woven this design and I had (sort of) forgotten the tendency of the cloth to develop quite a lot of ‘texture’ during wet finishing. I know people tend to say that ‘tracking’ only happens in plain weave, but the phenomenon of tracking will happen to other…
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Staying Flexible
I cut the last warp off over the weekend and starting prepping the next one. I have about 1/4 of the warp threaded, and hope to finish that today and to commence weaving tomorrow. As I worked with the Swedish Snowflake design some things bothered me about the draft. Since I had to ‘shorten’…
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Staying Flexible
I cut the last warp off over the weekend and starting prepping the next one. I have about 1/4 of the warp threaded, and hope to finish that today and to commence weaving tomorrow. As I worked with the Swedish Snowflake design some things bothered me about the draft. Since I had to ‘shorten’…
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Staying Flexible
I cut the last warp off over the weekend and starting prepping the next one. I have about 1/4 of the warp threaded, and hope to finish that today and to commence weaving tomorrow. As I worked with the Swedish Snowflake design some things bothered me about the draft. Since I had to ‘shorten’…
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Thinking Things Through
Linen from Lithuania, Tex 56 or Nm 17.9 I received a gift from someone in the form of linen produced in Lithuania. I chose the fine singles because my end product was intended to be tea towels, and I thought this yarn would make a lovely weft. Since I really liked the end product,…
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Beige – Boring, or Subtle?
2/16 cotton warp, Lithuanian linen size N56 (if I remember correctly) When seen from any kind of distance, this cloth simply looks…beige. The warp is Brassard’s 2/16 cotton in two closely related hues and values of beige, and the weft is the singles linen from Lithuania I received as a thank you from a…
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Oops.
Yesterday I cut the first 7 towels off the loom. I gotta tell ya, weaving with this linen from Lithuania has been lovely. When it arrived it was a bit thinner than I had expected (still not great at converting metric to imperial – my bad), but thinner can always – in a pinch…