Ann's kitchen towels

This post is really a record for me.  The photos are awful but if you look at the light stripe on the outer edges you will see the treadling line followed.  Threaded in 6 shaft echo, 28 tpi, 2 threads of 20/2 cotton together, charcoal and rust alternating.

My brief was the colours in these bracelets.

 Below, echo weave, pohutukawa green weft. 2:1 twill

 Below, turned taquete, apricot weft, two shuttles one with single thread the other with double thread.  The pattern is not very distinct.

 Below, 4 colour double weave with white and green in weft.

Below, 4 colour double weave, apricot and green in weft 

 Below, apricot weft, echo.

 Below, echo, white weft, treadling line same as threading

 Below, echo with 2:1 twill (which I just read is called jeans twill)

 Below, echo with pale green cotton/linen weft

 I think this last is echo again with a cream weft. 

 I seem to have missed photographing one which I'm sure was 4 colour double weave.
 Out of 9 towels there are just 2 left, 5 will go to the States and 2 are off to France.

Kitchen towels

I've called these kitchen towels, as opposed to the usual tea towel label here in New Zealand, as some have a thicker boucle weft and would be very suitable for hand drying.  They are all cotton warp, some are cotton weft and some 50/50 cotton linen weft. 2/1 twill block threading.

 Teal grey range

 Olive grey range

Turquoise yellow range

After the first run I did rethread the outside stripe onto the same shafts as the turquoise stripe freeing up 4 shafts for a basket weave selvedge which gave a very pleasant edge.

Tea towels

 Before the trip I threaded my loom with a cotton warp in 2:1 block twill for tea towels to be stock for the Cargo Shed Fibre Gallery.  I so enjoyed being back at the loom weaving these. 

Even tied another warp on and wove it off

then I put all 8 towels in the tub to soak and

Disaster!!

And they were so pretty.

I think I've rescued 2 olive ones.

I tried laundry detergent, Friend, Orvis soap.  

If I'd wanted to dye them the colour wouldn't have taken!

Anyone got any suggestions before I iron them and put them in my cupboard.

Not to be beaten I put another warp on. 

Do you recognise these colours Lynette?  

Its taken a while for them to speak to me!

Tea towel warp

Playing with different tie ups and treadlings while testing the "fixed" loom.

The threading is the same as for the banner and winning alpaca shawl and has a warp of alternate threads of cotton and linen.

I probably should have ironed the fold creases but ....

First tie up included 1-3, 3-1 twill and tabby.

No 2 woven as an echo weave.  This towel has a ramie weft and is probably not as absorbent as cotton or linen.

Woven as 4 colour double weave.  Showing a bit much pink as you can see by the 'white' background.

and the reverse side.

These were fun to play with so may do more for the Cargo Shed after 50 metres of scarf material.  I better get working.