Snowflake border tea towel
Over all I'm pleased enough with these.
They are 2/16 warp and weft, woven in a snowflake twill around the border with a plain/basket weave centre field
They are not 'perfect'. It's difficult to control the beat when changing between two weave structures with such different take up rates (and resistance to beating!)
But if you can't be perfect, be consistent, and I did the best I could given the challenges.
I also found weaving them rather tiring, given I'm not over the brain injury. On the whole, everyone (in the health care field) assures me I'm making an astonishing recovery. Since I'm only just 4 months (as of the 31st Dec.) out from the injury with a projected 24 month recovery, I can't complain. (She says, wanting to complain!)
Anyway, I decided I would sell these after all so I have uploaded them to my ko-fi shop. There are just 4 of this design in this colour, so if you are interested I would suggest that you act quickly. :)
In the meantime I am threading the loom (slowly, so, so, slowly) as I am trying not to stress my back too much. I get my next injections in January (Merry Xmas to me?) and I'm hoping that the new pain medication will keep things more 'comfortable' - and what will help is *not* stressing my back too much. So instead of threading for 45-60 minutes, I'm limiting my time at the loom to about 30.
In the meantime I'm working on another article for WEFT. I started writing the current article yesterday and it seemed to go well enough. Now I'm facing writing up the weaving records with all the instructions and...math. Never my strongest suit, now I'm finding it particularly difficult. But that's what calculators are for, amirite?
The folk at WEFT are making great progress and are on track to have the spring edition on schedule. Stay tuned!
2 comments:
The towel is lovely. Did you use a supplementary warp to manage the differential take-up? I'm having a heck of a problem with a set of towels with a simple twill/plain weave combination, but the differential take-up has been so annoying and unexpected (my sample was too small to identify the problem). I'm learning. Too bad I didn't start weaving 50 years ago!!! :-)
No, I didn't use a supplemental warp. The difference between the two weave structures were 'fudged' by adjusting my beat, and/or the tension on the warp. It isn't something I would try over a long length of yardage, but it worked well enough over the short distance of a towel. After wet finishing, it actually eased in quite nicely. But it was the reason I wove several samples, wet finishing each one before proceeding.
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