Category: tea towels
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Staging Area
8 boxes of hand wovens all packed up ready to be loaded into the van Once again my living room floor is acting as a staging area as we prepare for the first of four consecutive craft fairs. Doug has gone off to unload the rear seats of the van, store them at the annex…
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Revisiting
on the loom ready to go There are certain weave structures I like to weave – as you may have noticed. Wall of Troy is one. This woven illusion is another. They are both in the twill family. Wall of Troy can be done on four shafts. The woven illusion needs 16. I’ve done the…
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Wet Finished
cones of Fox Fibre yarn and wet finished towels Friday evening I finished weaving the beige warp with the Fox Fibre weft and ran the 19 towels through the washer/dryer on Saturday. Today I went and pressed them. Over all I’m quite pleased with the results although the colours aren’t ‘my’ colours. Actually the brown…
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Fox Fibre Towels
green weft begun with small sample showing developed colour I have totally lost count of how many brown towels I wove but one cone is now empty. 🙂 This afternoon I switched to the green which doesn’t look like much on the loom, but once the colour developes should look really nice. My energy finally came…
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Rising to the Challenge
here is the 2/20 merc. cotton warp all beamed and ready to be threaded brown and green Fox Fibre yarn on cone and small sample soaked in heavy concentration of washing soda and detergent – wow! look at the green! One of my weaving mentors always said that if we weren’t making mistakes we weren’t…
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Sunny Sunday
Silk scarves after pressing Managed to get the pressing done today – 8 silk scarves (whoops, really lost count!), 7 silk gimp shawls, 2 larger shawls and a small rectangle that may become a baby ‘blankie’. This afternoon I met with a lace making friend and we both talked lots and made (a very little)…
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Looking Ahead – Cautiously
possible yarns for next warp – tea towels with Fox Fibre weft possible draft for towels I think I’m on scarf #7 with a possibility of either 9 or 10 scarves on this warp. The silk warp went onto the loom at 20 turns (nominally 20 yards) and I’ve been weaving each scarf about 72″…
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Too Dry!
On this warp I’m using a singles 12 for weft. Unfortunately when the humidity drops below 50% linen gets a bit wire-y and unco-operative. At the moment we are have a cold snap and the relative humidity is currently at 45% (I know, I know, laugh now all you desert dwellers!) In order to make…
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Too Dry!
On this warp I’m using a singles 12 for weft. Unfortunately when the humidity drops below 50% linen gets a bit wire-y and unco-operative. At the moment we are have a cold snap and the relative humidity is currently at 45% (I know, I know, laugh now all you desert dwellers!) In order to make…
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Too Dry!
On this warp I’m using a singles 12 for weft. Unfortunately when the humidity drops below 50% linen gets a bit wire-y and unco-operative. At the moment we are have a cold snap and the relative humidity is currently at 45% (I know, I know, laugh now all you desert dwellers!) In order to make…