Category: towels
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It Isn’t Finished…
…until it’s wet finished… Changing from 2/16, which I’ve been using almost exclusively for a year to 2/8 cotton, I made a leap and estimated what the take up/shrinkage rate was going to be. And was out. By a lot. But not in a bad way. These green towels (not quite correct colour, but close)…
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Done (For Values Of)
view of towel showing part of the large motif and the hem area. If you look really really closely you might be able to see the cut line – two picks of a pale green where the design reverses, near the right hand side of the photo Yesterday did not go exactly as planned. Doug…
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Things Change
darker blue is thicker than the pale blue and the cloth is not drawing in as much. Selvedges are unsupported and collapsing added sticks to support the new weft Last night I used up the pale blue cotton slub, which was quite a fine yarn. This morning I started using a darker and somewhat thicker…
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Not Out
The box with the cones holds more of Lynn’s yarn, this time cotton slub. The box with the tubes contains the yarn I brought in to re-sell – when I was still doing that. That box with the tubes? It’s two layers deep. So no, I’m not even close to being ‘out’ of yarn. And…
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Endings
The cone is the last (finally!) of Lynn’s ginormous cones of cotton/linen blend. It’s about the same grist as 2/8 cotton, so has been weaving up nicely on the cotton warps I’ve been pulling. I really expected to use this cone up on the last warp, but here it sits, giving it’s all for another…
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Endings
The cone is the last (finally!) of Lynn’s ginormous cones of cotton/linen blend. It’s about the same grist as 2/8 cotton, so has been weaving up nicely on the cotton warps I’ve been pulling. I really expected to use this cone up on the last warp, but here it sits, giving it’s all for another…
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Subdued
towels close up – showing hem woven in 2/16 cotton and towel body in the cotton slub/linen White dilutes Grey muddies Black intensifies This little mantra will help in choosing appropriate colours for your textiles. I think you can see quite clearly that the deeper colours of the warp are being subdued by the pale…
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And Now…
…for something completely different… first half of a towel warp wound both halves wound ready for beaming with huge cone of cotton/linen for weft (and warp yarns because there are a few knots in the warp that will need fixing) I am getting tired of place mats, even though it’s apparent I haven’t nearly enough…
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A Little Introspection
Striped towel from a couple of years ago – which I’m thinking of revisiting in different colourways, different yarns… One of the things that has been providing some distraction for me is re-reading some of my older blog posts. I started the blog just about exactly 7 years ago (August 2008), partly as an expression…
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A Little Introspection
Striped towel from a couple of years ago – which I’m thinking of revisiting in different colourways, different yarns… One of the things that has been providing some distraction for me is re-reading some of my older blog posts. I started the blog just about exactly 7 years ago (August 2008), partly as an expression…