Category: tea towels
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Back to the Loom
Spent the morning winding bobbins for the lace show and share tomorrow but needed a break from that so went down to the loom and wove off a towel. Unfortunately the cold weather has brought lowered relative humidity, and the linen is being a spoiled brat. 🙁 It’s sloughing off the bobbin and wrapping around…
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Back to the Loom
Spent the morning winding bobbins for the lace show and share tomorrow but needed a break from that so went down to the loom and wove off a towel. Unfortunately the cold weather has brought lowered relative humidity, and the linen is being a spoiled brat. 🙁 It’s sloughing off the bobbin and wrapping around…
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Waves
in the cloth, and for saying ‘goodbye’ for a while. 🙂 In this photo you can just see the hem area at the bottom as it is rolling around the beam, and then a faint undulation in the towel itself. I was anxious to have this warp ready to weave on before I left because…
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Waves
in the cloth, and for saying ‘goodbye’ for a while. 🙂 In this photo you can just see the hem area at the bottom as it is rolling around the beam, and then a faint undulation in the towel itself. I was anxious to have this warp ready to weave on before I left because…
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More Wet Finishing
Visited Puff today and got a bunch of tea towels and other stuff pressed. It was hard to get a good photo of these very pale tea towels, but I think this photo looks pretty good. It mainly shows the most complex of the treadlings I did using the 1:3:2:2:3:1 tie up. The next batch…
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Variations on a Theme
I revisited one of my earlier drafts, changing the tie up to create twill blocks. The twill blocks give a much bolder pattern so I’ll probably finish out the rest of this warp (maybe 8 more yards left?) using treadling variations with blocks. Today is a better day than the last couple of weeks. I’ve…
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Ripples!
She asked for ripples, and ripples is what she got. 🙂 Sometimes simple is good. I’m rather enamored of this pattern, so I’ll be doing more than 2. In fact, I just finished towel #3 and look forward to doing a few more. I think for my next warp I’m going to revisit a threading…
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Rolling Along
I am now officially over the half way mark on this 40 yard pale blue (mostly) warp. 🙂 This photo shows ‘string of pearls’ variations 2 and 3. At the bottom is the treadling with a twill tie up: 1:3:2:2:3:1 The top shows the same treadling with a twill block tie up. The motifs are…
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Waffles
A couple of days ago I mentioned in a comment (I think) that I had woven a waffle weave towel with purposefully ruffled hems. The puckering doesn’t show up very well in this photo – if you look closely at the bands in between the waffle areas, you might just be able to see ‘lines’.…
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Complexity
This treadling is more complex than the original and makes an interesting large pattern. The X and O are still there, but elongated. I like creating curves in my fabric and while the raindrops were nice curves, they were a bit static. This pattern is more interesting to my eye. Such ornateness isn’t to everyone’s…