This design is a combination of the well-known tumbling blocks on sixteen shafts and a pattern I designed for the “other” eight shafts since I was working with a 24 shaft point on the loom for several other purposes.
And yes, I was pushing the deadline for my 2025 Cross Country Weavers sample for the theme “Turn, Turn, Turn+ and the tumbling blocks “turn.”
I used the draw down from Handweaving.net number 61229.
I used a 15 dent reed sett 20 epi.
Warped 444 threads 442 for the pattern and 2 for floating selvedge.
In the loom they were 22 inches wide and 30 inches long. After wash and hemming they were 18.5 wide and 25.5 long.
With the draw down from handweaving.net I added a border on each side of 8 threads per side and add a 2 in border pick at bottom and top of the towel.
Hand-dyed warp, dyed in the skein using fiber-reactive dyes, undyed weft. Woven on a new-to-me Bexell Cranbrook countermarche loom.
