The color sequence (Chasing Rainbows) comes from The Weaver’s Weevil by Rebecca Fox and the warp yarn is 10/2 mercerized cotton from Lunatic Fringe (color spectrum). I used black for the weft and threaded on a straight draw.
Collection: MAFA 2019 Towel Exchange
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It was fun to play with color. It was difficult to keep the Monk’s Belt pattern areas from drawing in.
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I learned how to choose 2 block textures for a 4 shaft loom. This was woven on a warp from MAFA 2017 Rosalie Neilson’s class “Color & Design in Huck Lace Towels”
I enjoyed weaving Huck for the first time, and enjoyed learning about motif, design, & texture in the class.
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The warp alternates 2 threading blocks with 3 thread colors. This is a two shuttle weave and each block of the 2-block treadling uses two colors in the weft, and the color combination changes with each block change. All 3 of the warp colors are used in the weft in this order: Purple & Red (purple for 1st and last pic) / Green & Purple (green used for 1st and last pic) / Red & Green (red used for 1st and last pic).
This alternating color arrangement gives a two-colored stripe block that changes with each block.
If you have more than 4 shafts, the original directions recommend using a left and right border of plain weave, threaded on shafts 5 and 6.
I really like the way this looks, but it was a bit of a pain to weave (using 2 shuttles and a color change at every block) and I will probably not use this color/weave arrangement again.