Plain Weave, Twill

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Using the idea that if six colors is good, 60 would be better, I chose yarns from the blues and greens in my 10/2 stash, included cotton I had hand dyed, and wound various stripes onto the warping board, trying to balance colors and vary width of stripes. Although I warp back to front, I then threaded different designs grouping and separating as I thought looked nice. I varied stripes and complimented plain weave with two-two twill, sometimes rising, sometimes falling.

What has resulted is a one-of-a-kind towel that I couldn’t reproduce if I wanted to!

The towel is machine hemmed, but with a foot peddle powered sewing machine, which I take to be about as hand made as using my loom.

The draft file I have attached is a sample, not the whole towel.

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I did notice that my warp drew in more for the point twill than the plain weave. Next time I will use a temple for that part. Warp color is white. Weft colors- -plain weave is pale yellow, point twill chevron is orange and point twill diamond pattern is red. The hem was hand-sewn prior to washing.