Category: tea towels
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Weaving with Linen
This will be the ‘face’ of the towels. Colours are not accurate, see photo below Weaving with the fewest shafts up means I’m weaving the cloth with the ‘back’ side facing me. If you have an ‘ordinary’ treadle jack loom, the fewer shafts being lifted, the less effort required to do the lifting. It’s a…
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Am I Blue?
Yes I am. Loving this blue warp. It doesn’t look like much at a distance though, so I’ll get a better photo once it comes round to the back of the loom. As usual I’m weaving it ‘upside down’ in order to lift the fewest shafts. This puts the majority of the linen on one…
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Stubborn
My mother used to ask the rhetorical question “How did you get to be so stubborn?!” It took all my will power to not respond “Have you looked in the mirror?” During my mother’s long life (and my father’s all too short one) Life Happened on a regular basis. Time after time she weathered the…
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Happy Birthday, Baby!
Yesterday I said I was going to announce a ‘special’ on my publications. Traditionally I have done this as a combination Canada Day/July 4/my birthday offering. So, here’s the deal. I have produced Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens. This is now OOP as a ‘real’ book, but available on CD (3 copies), on…
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Things Happen
I’m blaming the cold Doug so generously shared with me for the brain cramp that resulted in my making a mistake in the tie up of the next set of towels…and not noticing until well into towel number three! Now I know you can’t really see it in the photo, but it will be quite…
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Irrepressible
showing both sides of the cloth – one side more orange, the other, not so much close up Finally got started weaving the warp on the AVL yesterday. The colours aren’t to my taste particularly, but I think for those people who do like soft earthy palettes, these are looking pretty good. One thing about…
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Beige, Not Bland
Next, up, this lovely beige warp. Lovely, you ask? What is so lovely about beige? Beige is bland. Beige is boring. Beige is…not any sort of colour at all! Beige doesn’t have to be boring or bland. Beige is a nice neutral colour which can set off other colours quite nicely. A beige warp…
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Fire-y Red
Beginning of the red warp showing the header where I checked for threading/sleying errors, decided on a treadling and just generally made sure the loom was behaving. Red on Red Swedish Snowflake motif used as a border on each side of the warp. I fiddled around with the motif and centre field to make it…
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One Tiny Bite
Managed one tiny bite – finished off the ‘green’ warp with some of the singles 16 half-bleached linen. Unfortunately there is still some of the linen left after the warp is finished, but I think I can use that on the beginning of the next warp on the AVL. I have also decided what to…
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Mermaid Tea Towels
cloth being woven ‘up side down’ in order to lift the fewest shafts most of the time… So there I was yesterday, smugly thinking I was ‘done’ for the year. Until we set up the booth this morning, that is…. I knew I was low on tea towels; I did not realize just how low…