Category: tea towels
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Of Faith and Finesse
First the finesse…. I am always looking for new ways to do things that will either allow me to do what’s necessary in less time, or cause the least amount of angst whilst doing it. While whining to a friend this morning about that pesky linen, which was causing me the most grief not in…
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Notches and Next
No matter how carefully I wind the bobbins or throw and catch the shuttle the weft will occasionally snarl around the axis in the shuttle and notch the selvedge with too much tension. When this happens I immediately stop – do not beat! – and re-seat the weft. I do not tug the selvedge threads…
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Coping with Wire-y Thread
You can clearly see how spring-y this yarn is – it doesn’t want to lie nice and tidy on the bobbins but leaps off at every opportunity. It’s especially difficult when it’s being doubled (click on the doubling stand tag to the right) as each end can spring off in different directions. So the first…
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White Dilutes
green/purple/blue towels close up showing the herringbone border This warp is a wonderful example of Michelle Whiplinger’s mantra about the effect of colour values. If you substitute ‘light value’ for white you get the same effect – the intense green/purple/dark blue almost black has been diluted by the natural grey linen weft. (The complete mantra…
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Blue Towels
blue/grey towels on loom close up showing Wall of Troy and straight twill threadings A few posts ago Sharon commented on weaving being a whole body experience. This is something that new weavers don’t understand at first, especially if they have only woven on narrow warps. The wider the warp you have on the loom,…
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Wall of Troy
Draft for tea towel warpOne of the twill weaves I like a lot is Wall of Troy. The draft shown here combines a straight twill draw on the edges with Wall of Troy in the centre. The towels (I’ll post a photo tomorrow perhaps) are turning out really nicely. The two colours were threaded with…
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Progress and an Announcement
towel showing hem area between towels and beginning of second Got one tea towel woven this morning, and started on the second. It’s hard to see the pattern, but the light stripes are threaded straight twill draw, the darker stripes point twill. I’m weaving point twill so the towel will have a nice texture with…
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Towels – Again
I got the tea towel warp beamed this afternoon. There were a few Operator Errors involved in this project – already. For some reason it appears that I can’t add. I’d intended this warp to be about 23 inches wide. It’s 25. It shouldn’t be that difficult, but there are days when my brain simply…
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Ready to Thread
Here is the warp in all it’s colourful glory. You can clearly see the gaps where the varigated yarns will go. In order to transfer the ends of the warp to just behind the heddles, I cover the second beam with some plastic. The 6 bouts of varigated yarns have already been transferred behind the…
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Stash Reduction, Daily Exercise
2/8 cotton warp with cotton/linen slub for towel body, 2/16 cotton for hem weft – note cutting line – two picks of twill Got home from doin’ the Puyallup about 9 pm last night. Today I tried to get organized – banking and such – and in between wove on Fanny working on the tea…