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.
Beautiful. What an effortxx ewll donexlynda
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don’t they look marvelous all washed and ironed and ready to be loved/used! this is the weaving i could NOT ever discipline myself to do (i tried). useful, beautiful, deceptively simple, really complex. but each one has it’s own personality. i like the pinkybeige one best… until i look at the rest.
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Those are beautiful.
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