Category: tea towels
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Work = Play
So, I am back to weaving with yarn of relatively high linen content – during winter – with low ambient humidity. Yesterday I dressed the loom with another tea towel warp on the small loom and wound bobbins for weft. The weft yarn is a cotton slub plyed (plied?) with a singles linen. It’s fairly…
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Sale – Part Deux
It is a very grey and gloomy day today and these towels look more ‘yellow’ than in real life. They are really more on the blue side of green. Wave – 50/50 cotton/linen warp is 2/16 cotton at 32 epi, weft a finer linen. There are four and the price is $38 each. Zig-Zag. Woven…
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A Very Weaverly Sale
One of my favourite gifts from another weaver is something they have woven. And I especially love hand woven textiles. I think we have just one commercially woven tea towel left as even Doug has grown enamoured of them. As I use each one I remember who made it and they feel close to me,…
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Simple, Not Easy
knot in warp – repair end threaded through same heddle, woven together with original end for 1 to 1.25″, then cut original end and continue weaving until… original end is long enough to re-thread through the heddle. Weave 1 to 1.25″, then cut repair end. Clip all tails once cloth is off the loom before…
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Ephemeral
Textiles are ephemeral. Unlike pottery or glass, they do not age well, rather they return to cosmic dust, leaving very little of their passage through time left behind. Unless they leave an imprint in clay or some other medium which will record their existence. In rare instances some traces are left behind – either frozen…
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Stacked
Having done an inventory of what I’ve got ready for the fall shows, I was able to tell what colours I needed to make in order to have a good selection for sale. While Mary was here, I wound warps and here are five ready to go. I also noticed I was low on natural…
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Hot!
hemmed and ready to go (except for final pressing) Warp: 2/16 cotton, weft 100% linen Price: $38 each boxes – 4 twill blocks (middle) 3 zig-zag – 6 still on the loom, same as above. vertical lines are reed marks which should disappear (pretty much) during wet finishing. I’m calling this design ‘confetti’. Three…
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For Sale
2/16 cotton warp, linen weft – chocolate weft $28 each 7 left, beige weft – $28 each 8 left 2/16 cotton warp, linen weft – pale green warp $36 each 18 left, darker turquoise warp $36 each 11 left 2/16 cotton warp, tow linen weft $28 each, 7 left 2/16 cotton warp, tow linen weft…
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Canada Day
Today is Canada Day – a day of celebration of the ‘birth’ of our country. We are enjoying a lovely sunny day and there are many events going on of which I am attending…none. Rather I am celebrating that I am getting better, have a little more energy and tackling a mountain of administrivia that…
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Free Shipping
lots of copies, some signed (12?) $20 12 copies – $40 Well, it’s that time of the year again! Where has this year gone? As per usual, I will be having my ‘birthday bash’ special offering – July 1-9 buy two items and get free shipping. I will be posting photos of the tea towels…