stash busting

–the towels woven in a 4 harness pattern taken from the Finnish book  are finished.

This only makes a very small dint in my stash!  Woven on a linen warp, each weft is different. From left to right; blue is handspun cotton, 50% recycled blue jeans

– pinky beige is handspun hemp dyed with homegrown madder

-green is commercial 40/1 linen

-grey is European hemp singles, dew retted giving it the silvery colour

-blue is handspun ramie, indigo dyed

-brown is 20/2 linen, dyed with kakishibu

– red, upper right, is commercial cotton recycled from a guild member’s stash 

Hems were woven with linen, turned back and stitched to the double row of hem stitching.

 Although it is a simple looking 4 harness pattern it difficult to see treadling mistakes on the loom and it looked different after washing–that’s when the mistakes pop up.

The double hemstitching, on both ends took a fair amount of time but I think they are worth it. The linen gives them a crisp hand.

The red piece will be a sample in the book and if there is time some small Valentines.

Now off to wind another warp.