More Twill Towels

This summer I made a run of towels on a 7 yard warp in a straight twill.  I loved the opportunity to try out 7 different tie-ups and treadling.  Using a white warp and different colors of weft and different treadling resulted in very different towels.  I blogged about those towels here in an earlier post.

Fancy Twill
Handweaving.net
Draft 13916

I decided that I wanted to try the same thing with a point twill.  The patterns included some that I found on pinterest, handweaving.net and A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns. The warp is an 8/4 matt cotton available from Earth Guild.  It is a very soft, not highly twisted cotton, that results in a very lush fabric that I hope is absorbent for towels.  However, set at 20 epi, some of the floats were pretty long on the cloth.  A couple of the tie-ups had floats that were 5 pics long. Hopefully, the stickiness of the yarn will keep the warp from snagging.

One of my favorites in this set uses several different weft colors in random patterns and stripes.  It reminds me of a Fair Isle sweater.  The weft for this towel was frogged from thrift store sweaters.

                                             Fancy Twill
A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns
Draft 323-2

Snowflake

Twill Thrills

Page 7

Snowflake Twill Thrills
Page 7

Loom  Baby Wolf

Weave Structure  Point Twill

Reed  12, 20 epi

Warp     Fiber  Matt Cotton

              Count  8/4

              Color  Natural

              Source  Earthguild

Warp     Width in Reed  20 "

              Ends  402

              Length  7 yds

Weft      5/2 and 8/2 cottons and some frogged cottons

Handweaving.net

Draft 61537
Date Finished  December 2013

Beat       50/50  
Size  17 1/2 x 24 1/2

Overshot - Cat Tracks and Snail Trails

This set of 3 towels is not yet finished, even though it was started over 2 months ago.  Soon after putting this on the Newcomb, we left town for Montana.  I have been busy on other projects and will post those as soon as I get around to taking the photos.   I hope to get a chance to finish the Cat Tracks towels later this month.  The towels are weaving up nicely, but in the pattern areas, two strands of 8/2 cotton is required.  I have been winding a single shuttle with double strands which doesn't always feed through evenly.  Gary recently made a double shuttle for me, which solves this problem.  I can't wait to finish up these towels with the new double shuttle.

Date Finished - not done yet

Loom  Newcomb

Weave Structure Overshot

Reed 10, 2 ends per dent

Warp Fiber cotton

Count  8/2

Color natural and blue

Mfr  Dragon's Tail

Source  Earth Guild

Warp Width in Reed  18 1/4 "

Ends  362

Length  3 1/2 yds

Weft Fiber  same, doubled for pattern yarn
           

Beat 50/50                    

Size

Notes