Category: tea towels
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More Tea Towels
This is the second treadling on the current warp. I simplified the sequence somewhat and now have ‘strings of pearls’? The red line is a cutting line so that I don’t have to guess where to separate the towels when they come off the loom. You should be able to just see that I’ve woven…
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Holy Snowball, Batman!
I expected this design to be more of an X and O, but the O’s definitely seem to dominate! I’m not sure if the pattern should be called snowballs, or raindrops keep falling, or…..? The lines in the cloth are due to cramming the threads in the reed, although in the picture I see one…
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A Pressing Matter
Or perhaps I should say, a matter of pressing? I’ve mentioned my industrial steam press in previous posts, and since I had my Blackberry with me (I’m finding a camera phone amazingly handy!) thought I’d take some pictures. 😀 So here is Puff…………. Doug installed Puff in my ‘annex’ which has two areas. The front,…
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Spring Colours
My preference for a colour palette is generally the rich vibrant reds/purples/blues commonly referred to as ‘jewel’ tones. Either that or tone on tone, generally variations of natural/bleached whites. That said, every once in a while I find myself working with paler colours with yellow undertones. This warp didn’t start out with the intention of…
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Spring Colours
My preference for a colour palette is generally the rich vibrant reds/purples/blues commonly referred to as ‘jewel’ tones. Either that or tone on tone, generally variations of natural/bleached whites. That said, every once in a while I find myself working with paler colours with yellow undertones. This warp didn’t start out with the intention of…
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Spring Colours
My preference for a colour palette is generally the rich vibrant reds/purples/blues commonly referred to as ‘jewel’ tones. Either that or tone on tone, generally variations of natural/bleached whites. That said, every once in a while I find myself working with paler colours with yellow undertones. This warp didn’t start out with the intention of…
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Absorbency
Towel woven of 2/16 cotton for warp and a cotton slub for weft. In August of 2007, I finally did something I’d been wanting to do for a long time – a test of absorbency of different textiles. The following is a report I shared with members of a study group. “I’ve just finished a…
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Gone, Gone, Gone!
Well, I finally finished another yarn! This time it’s the 3000 yd/pound rayon chenille. Unfortunately there wasn’t quite enough of it to do the length I wove the others so since this one is technically a ‘second’ I guess I get to keep it. 🙂 The greens and lavenders show up much more in this…
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Rolling On…
Here is a towel with a twill sequence, showing the hem area leading into the beginning of the pattern. This is the cloth as it looks rolling onto the cloth storage roller. The towel here was done with a twill block tie up giving more areas of ‘solid’ colour than the twill lines shown above.…
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Finishing – a Little
This photo doesn’t really do these towels justice. The subtle colours make the fabric very rich. The cloth has two different sides – one more blue, the other more beige. I got two of the cloth storage rollers cleared off and serged everything that could be serged. Today I ran a load of tea towels…