Monday, April 22, 2019

Towels are Still Being Woven

I realized that it has been quite a while since I posted on this blog.  I have been weaving, but since what I'm weaving is similar, I haven't thought there was much to say.  But I am still weaving towels.  A friend ask me if I wasn't tired of towels yet, and I guess I'm not.

Since the last published towels, I have woven several sets of towels, still exploring color as I go along.  I took a short break from color to weave some 4-shaft twill towels using 12/2 unmercerized cotton in a natural color.  The pattern is a fancy twill and the resulting towels are soft and subtle.  I also wove a few of these with 10/2 cotton.




All of the other towels have been various combinations of colors.  They are all woven using 10/2 mercerized cotton in warp and weft, sett at 30 epi.  They are threaded to a variety of 8-shaft point twills and the tie-up is a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill.

It is fun to combine different colors for these towels.  I typically use a picture as inspiration, but not always.








The next set of towels on the loom are in shades of blue.

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