The piece is woven using Deborah Silver’s split-shed technique. I hand-drew the cartoon for the pickup oatterning. I warped my table loom with enough for two runners. The first I cut off and used for a weaving guild challenge. This is the completed one shown...
I expanded the 8 shaft original draft to 24 shafts to balance my loom better. Results should be identical with the 8 shaft version....
This towel has 408 ends in the warp and was woven to 31 inches long. I began with a 9.5 yard long warp and wove 10 towels. It is my belief that a long warp gives the weaver a large variety of places to play....
There are 456 ends in this towel. It measures 19″ wide in the reed.The pattern changes do not line up with the colors. In the draft I used a solid purple to represent the multi-colored areas. 72 green24 cream 72 ends in a variety of...
I used Parson’s crepe threading, treadling and tie-up as referenced above, but added a band of my own design to one side of the towel....
The original draft I found on the Schacht website had 414 ends, so I adjusted to 430 ends to meet the necessary width requirement. I also used a simplified threading, a draft of which was supplied to me by Judie Eatough. I machine washed the...
This towel is a design to combine waffle and tabby. I used five shafts for the waffle areas and three shafts for the tabby areas. For the waffle areas I sett the ends at 32 epi, tighter than the tabby areas of 24 epi. I...
I wanted to use the ‘Netting A’ from Davison’s book page 95, but didn’t want to have to move heddles, so I used shafts 7 and 8 to substitute for shafts 2 and 3 when necessary. I also wanted a small selvedge and used shafts...
A 4-shaft point twill sounds boring but when you add warp stripes of tan, red, green and bright yellow separated by white stripes edged by a single navy thread there is hope. Add an interesting tie-up and treadling to create an interesting texture you have...
