Category: tea towels
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Good or Perfect?
After I ‘proofed’ the treadling, I started weaving. It’s not ‘perfect’, but…good enough. The linen weft is stiff, and the relative humidity in the studio is ‘low’ (around 32% at time of writing) so the linen isn’t very pliable and doesn’t want to bend ‘nicely’ at the selvedge. The weave structure is a ‘fancy’ twill,…
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Tension Issues
At last! I got the warp done and was able to test the treadling sequence to see how it was going to weave up. Since I’ve used this combination of yarns before, I had drawn upon my experience and decided on 32 epi and a twill of some kind, chose a pretty bog standard tie…
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Inching Along
Finished off the natural beige linen and started on the white for weft. The colours are subtle – a pale grey and pale green about the same value. It’s an approach to creating textiles I like because it gives the cloth more depth, more ‘interest’, than a same yarn/colour warp. Not that that is…
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Variations
variation on yesterday’s draft Messed around with the tie up and quite like how it looks this way. Not sure which I will use since both are potentially useful, although I’m leaning more to this one. OTOH, I won’t really know until I start weaving. The weft will be very close to the warp…
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Carrots (not Sticks)
Yesterday I cut the shawl warp off the loom and started setting up for the next warp, on which I will be weaving samples to illustrate an article I’m writing. Actually, I’m thinking I could weave samples for two different articles, so I’m thinking about how many samples I need and what needs to…
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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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A Different Tack
Over the weekend I got the next warp into the loom and started weaving this morning. Shawls are similar to tea towels in that I’m using 2/16 bamboo for warp and a similar sized rayon for weft. But, shawls are larger – wider and much longer – so it looks like it is going…
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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…
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Struggle
It feels like my life has been a constant struggle since…I can’t even remember when. My entire life? So I’m used to things not being comfortable. Or going smoothly. Or having to stop and re-jig what I want to do because it just isn’t working out the way I wanted it to. To be…
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Next!
Draft shown on desktop screen I’m over the halfway mark on the current warp so it is time to get the next warp designed. This warp will be two shades of beige and the fine linen from Lithuania will be woven on it. I think the two cones of linen will finish off one…