Tracking

 

I did an article for WEFT (vol 1?) that talked about tracking, and included a photo of a cloth woven in twill and showed the tracking effect on that twill cloth.  It was very subtle, and hard to see, but if I looked closely enough, it was clearly there.  The thing is, tracking is impossible to ignore in plain weave and people assume nothing occurs when twill is woven, but...it does.

The cloth I'm weaving now has a weft that is highly twisted.  I've been observing the effect of weave structure in the cloth, which I felt was being accentuated by the 'normal' amount of twist that tends to show up in plain weave, and, since the towels I was making had areas of plain weave, the weave was developing some interesting textures.

Since I still have a few cones of this highly twisted singles, I decided to play with the effect and see what would develop in the wet finishing.

Well, I finally got a 'batch' of towels ready - with only 7 towels, that made for a small load, but ok - and ran them through the washer and dryer earlier this week.

They did not disappoint

So here they are.  They are woven in a 1:2-2:1 twill and look at all that lovely texture!  And yes, they have been hard pressed, so they aren't just wrinkled fresh out of the washer/dryer.

Change one thing...