tea towels

I wound the warp twice as long but only half the width - and remembered to put a cross at both ends! I like winding the warp this way when I'm doing stripes. It's much faster to wind the warp, plus the stripes are the same width.

I wove each towel 37" long, then put in two shots of a contrasting cotton. I should have made the warp about 12" longer as the last towel was only 33" long.

I threaded the loom with a broken 2/2 twill - 1, 3, 2, 4 - and treadled 2/2 twill. I wove 2 towels each with the warp colours as the weft - so 2 blue weft, 2 pink weft and 2 varigated weft.

When I was done, I did a quick zigzag at each end of the warp, threw it in the washer and then the dryer. I then ironed the material to remove any wrinkles and flatten the edges. On the sewing machine I did a straight stitch on the ends of each towel, cut them apart and then did a 1/2" folded hem.

off loom measurements - 20.5" x 35"
washed measurements - 18" x 29.5"