Category: tea towels
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Under Pressure
This morning I pressed the towels that were cut off the loom on Friday, and run through the washing machine last night. The top photo shows the compression line fairly clearly – the bottom half of the cloth is smooth, while above it is not. The middle photo shows the blue ridges of the weave…
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Percolating
Now that company has gone and I’m back to thinking about what I want to be weaving, and because the current warp is well underway, it is time to start thinking about the next warp. There are two boxes of pirns filled with two shades of beige so it seems time to do another beige…
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Interlacements/Angle
Someone asked about interlacements and how one would go about changing that ratio. I managed to get one towel woven yesterday with the finer green linen. The camera has washed out the colours a bit, it actually looks more interesting than this, but the point of the photo is the twill angle. If the linen…
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Green
While I have been on a stash reduction target for far too long (people keep dying and I keep getting their yarn to add to mine) there are always interesting lessons to be learned from digging deep into the stash. Now the two yarns in the photo were acquisitions by moi, but one (the darker)…
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Green
While I have been on a stash reduction target for far too long (people keep dying and I keep getting their yarn to add to mine) there are always interesting lessons to be learned from digging deep into the stash. Now the two yarns in the photo were acquisitions by moi, but one (the darker)…
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Green
While I have been on a stash reduction target for far too long (people keep dying and I keep getting their yarn to add to mine) there are always interesting lessons to be learned from digging deep into the stash. Now the two yarns in the photo were acquisitions by moi, but one (the darker)…
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New Draft
One of the advantages of having a computer assisted dobby loom is that you can design and file away complete treadling drafts for a project. This is my latest warp. I call it ‘lily pads’ for reasons which will become apparent once I get started weaving. I hope! But I thought it might be interesting…
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Regular programming
Finished the copper-y brown weft and started on the green cotton. The cottolin I’d intended to use turned out to be 2/8, not 2/16, and therefore too thick. However I have a fairly deep and broad stash of 2/16 cotton, and so the rest of this warp will be woven off in cotton. Based on…
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Tricky Twills
Most weavers have experienced the phenomenon of having the outside ends of their warp ‘fall out’ of the cloth when they reverse the direction of a twill. It is the reason so many weavers recommend that a floating selvedge be used for twills. Since I don’t like using floating selvedges, I try to find work…
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Selling my Work part III
These are the last of the tea towels/kitchen towels I will be posting. These are both half linen, but the darker blue/green is a heavier linen weft, most likely tow. It is thicker and of a quality I refer to as a kitchen utility towel. The other is woven with a lighter weight linen and…