This towel was washed in the machine, dried in the dryer, ironed with steam and hand hemmed with cotton thread. Other notes on making the towel are included in the WIF. I might sett it a tad closer next time—22-24 epi. It offers a great opportunity for designing with color and for putting together colors that one might be uncomfortable using together!
Guild: Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore
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It was my first experience with Bateman weaves. I looked at the following books to understand the technique and create my pattern:
- Bateman Weaves: The Missing Monograph by Linda Tilson Davis
- Weaving Innovations from the Bateman Collection by Robyn Spady, Nancy A. Tracy and Marjorie Fiddler
- Weaving Bateman Blend by Margaret Franklin
I liked designing and weaving with this technique.
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This was fun and fast to weave.
24 epi
24 ppi
576 ends and 2 floating selvages
I simplified the treadling for a less busy effect.
Before finishing: 26″ long x 22″ wide
After finishing: 22″ long x 20.5″ wide
Shrinkage: 22%
Machine wash cool, normal cycle; 20 minutes heated dryer; pressed
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Name draft created in Fiberworks. Name for threading is: PatCapogrossi.
487 ends.
2 inches of plain weave at each end.
Machine washed and dried.
Yarns are Lunatic Fringe perle cotton.
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I followed one of HW patterns for exchange towel. For others on warp I randomized- using 3 colors, adding alternating stripes etc. Made towels more fun in my opinion.
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Towels are a bit on the wide side. Could have made them narrower and/or longer as they came out rather square.
Treadling: Woven in plain weave for40 picks white, Turq/White, White/Turq 5 times, 14 picks white, Pink/White, White/Pink 5 times, 14 picks white, Orange/White, White/Orange 5 times, 22 picks of white, 11″ of Swiss Lace pattern and reverse. 1″ hems woven with 24/2 cotton. Hems sewn by hand.
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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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Making the graphic square is more important than the actual PPI. If 19 PPI gives you a square graphic, then it’s good. It was fun to weave, my first attempt at using cottolin.
The draft actually calls for 18 EPI. I only had a 10 dent reed available, so I went with 17.5 EPI.
Loom width 18.89 inches in the reed, 17.5 inches off loom, and 16.5 inches finished. Loom length 34.75 inches off loom(before hemming) and 29.75 inches finished and hemmed.
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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.
