06. Towels at the loom
Basics Project #2: Towels • 41m
What this project will teach you:
- How to resume weaving after cutting off a finished item
- How to weave with linen
- How to create a hem that preserves the twill angle of the towel
Topics include:
- Towel demo and Vävstuga band loom
- Starting again after cutting off a woven piece
- Weaving with linen
- Treadling that preserves the twill angle of the towel
- Weaving the towel
- Color change
- Fixing a broken warp thread the quick way
- Weaving the hem at the end of the towel
- Weaving towel tab on the band loom
Up Next in Basics Project #2: Towels
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07. Planning towels
What this project will teach you:
- How to make thread windings to sample different colorways for your towels
- How to document a project, creating a project sheet for your binderTopics include:
- What yarns will we use?
- What reed will we use?
- Describing the cloth
- Warp quantity calculations -
08. Tuesday drafting
What this project will teach you:
- How to spot the defining characteristic of twills
- How to understand the difference between warp- and weft-effect twills
- An appreciation of the wide variety of fabric that can be woven using twills and their variationsTopics include:
- Exercise 1: Review f...
