Comments

1horsetown

What a great idea.  Turned out lovely.

WeaverGrace

Your colors are amazing. Just what your daughter asked for. Aren't kids great at inspiring us? I love your variations of the weft colors.

Finished Length Unit
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Finished Width Unit
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Length Off Loom Unit
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Length on Loom Unit
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Notes

My daughter requested colorful towels for her kitchen as Christmas presents.  Different towels for each season.  Here was the criteria I used:

  • I wouldn't buy any yarn for these projects, instead using only yarns from my stash.
  • I would give her 2 towels for each season and have 2 additional towels per season.  I would have loved to have more 'extra' towels, but time was not on my side since I didn't get the first towel started until after Thanksgiving.  So I warped for 4 towels per season.
  • I would use different weaving drafts for the towels: 1 crackle, 1 lace, 1 straight draw, and 1??  Except I ended up doing 2 straight draw because of the number of colors in the warps.
  • My daughter would get the towels with any weaving errors, selvedge issues, or other imperfections; I'd sell the others.

All towels were woven predominantly with Maurice Brassard 8/2 cotton.  Here are the colors used per towel, and details about other yarns used:

  • Christmas towels: warp: cerise; weft: 1 red, 2 raspberry, 1 gris pale (I thought the pale gray would look like silver with the cerise.  It just looks dull.  I also ran out of warp for this one so it's quite short.)
  • Springtime towels: warp: vert pale, cobalt, handpainted cotton/hemp; weft: 2 jaune pale, 1 orange pale, 1 vert pale
  • Summer towels: warp: homestead cotton baby blue, blue, nassau blue, Maurice Brassard vert pale; weft: 1 pale blue, 1 A Touch of Twist variegated cotton slub, 2 plaid
  • Autumn towels: warp: orange pale, brun moyen, limette pale, orange brule, cerise, jaune fonce, sapin, rouille, olive; weft: 1 orange brule, 1 rouille, 2 cerise

 

 

Number of Shafts
4
Number of Treadles
6
Project Status
Finished
Sett Unit
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Width off Loom Unit
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Width on Loom Unit
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