Taking Stock

 

Yesterday I pressed the white linen on natural merc. cotton warp and no, they are not 'perfect' but I'm quite pleased with them.  They have the linen 'stiffness' but the cotton flex, and woven of fine threads they should be really nice tea towels.  I only wound up with 11 of them, but I still have about a pound and a half of the singles linen, so I decided to change directions and the next warp will be wound of the merc. 2/20 cotton at 40 epi and woven in this tried and true draft.

It's a fairly simple threading, just point progressions over 16 shafts with straight twill progression borders and since I'm still playing pain med roulette, keeping things simple is probably a good idea.

I've used this draft many times over the years.  I like the visual 'pun', which actually won't be obvious with the white/natural yarns.  It will look like damask even though it's a block twill.  I usually get around 18 or so towels per warp, but I will make them a bit smaller and may get 20.  

The yarn will last longer than just one warp so there will have to be one more to finish off the linen, then perhaps some of the white 2/20 merc cotton.  During my digging I found not one but two huge cones of the stuff.  Not sure what that will look like, yet.  Maybe the draft I showed the other day.

I've also been asked to do another article for WEFT so I'm mulling over what I will say for that one.  In the meantime I have time to do at least this warp before I start working on the article.  

The US continues to live an 'interesting' life.  Will the tariffs be forgotten about?  Or will he just go full on with plans to annex Canada (and Panama, and Greenland, and, and, and...)?

One thing about weaving so many samples is that I'm not producing so many textiles for sale.  So that's a win-win situation given the state of the world right now.