Category: towels
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Seeing Progress
towels ready to tag and sell There are many steps in the process of weaving and completing each one always feels like a milestone. But there is nothing to compare to giving the cloth it’s final press. All that’s left is to put the hang tag/care label on and these towels can be put away,…
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Minimum/Maximum
showing the ‘right’ side of the cloth showing the ‘wrong’ side of the cloth The colours in these photos are not ‘true’ – the first one was taken at the back/bottom of the loom as the cloth rolls up on the storage roller. It is dark down there so the colours appear darker and bluer.…
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Going on Faith
I’m quite enjoying this warp. The colours are soft and remind me that spring is coming – although not any time soon, in spite of yesterdays weather! This warp is getting a bunch of bits of yarn from my stash used up on it. This weft is 22/2 cottolin – of which I had one…
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Waffle Towels
I had intended to use 2/16 cotton for weft on the waffle towels, but in my digging in the store room uncovered some of the singles 6 cotton I have. The yarn was sent as an error as part of a large order of 2/8 cotton directly from one of the few spinning mills left…
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Tweaking
Since I wasn’t happy with the hem area of the illusion towels, I changed it to a 1/3 twill. I’d originally thought to have a mostly red hem, but decided I liked the beige better: One of the great advantages of a computer aided loom is that I can program the entire treadling repeat for…
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Piling Up
to be done on sofa; done on coffee table… Today was a rather chilly day – perfect for pressing. So I pressed another 20+ tea towels. They were still a little damp so I left them there to dry completely. There is one more load of towels to be run through the washer and dryer,…
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Piling Up
to be done on sofa; done on coffee table… Today was a rather chilly day – perfect for pressing. So I pressed another 20+ tea towels. They were still a little damp so I left them there to dry completely. There is one more load of towels to be run through the washer and dryer,…
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Towelling Up
2/16 cotton warp with fine linen weft 2/8 cotton warp (warp twist) with rayon/linen boucle’ weft 2/8 warp twist cotton warp with fine cotton slub weft Finishing what I’ve woven always seems to take longer than the weaving, partly because I tend to do the tasks involved in batches. Since I do my pressing at…
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Stash Reduction
It seems ages ago I beamed this warp in an effort to use up some of my stash of cottons but I’m finally heading down the home stretch. The bottom bit has a dark red cottolin weft which is now all used up (yay!) and the last couple of yards of this warp will be…
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Stash Reduction
It seems ages ago I beamed this warp in an effort to use up some of my stash of cottons but I’m finally heading down the home stretch. The bottom bit has a dark red cottolin weft which is now all used up (yay!) and the last couple of yards of this warp will be…