Category: tender yarn

  • What You See

    open the image in a new window to see the draft entirely I thought I would show the kind of information I work with when I’m planning a warp. As mentioned previously, the threading is a point progression over 16 shafts. (Why don’t I call this point twill?  Because while the cloth is based on…

  • Tender

    Tender

    magnification of seine twine and a 2 ply cotton yarn – seine twine is generally made up of several plys and much more tightly twisted and an ‘ordinary’ 2 ply cotton yarn At a recent class I talked a wee bit about working with ‘tender’* yarn.  About how more twist will make a short staple…