I always use floating selvedges with kitchen towels for less pull in and maintaining some durability and size consistency on the loom-personal choice is enter over, exit under
I’ve enclosed my general instructions as I published in Heddlecraft–one has lots of freedom with block sizes and symmetry versus asymmetry in all forms.
The towel being entered in the exchange is one of the six woven with this threading/warping.
I always choose a rolled hem–this towel is hand-stitched, but a zig zag machine stitch in fine thread would look just fine.
MAFA2025-3868
Weaver
Gail Pilgrim
Source
This expands upon my own article in Heddlecraft Issue #42 which in turn was inspired by a Marguerite Davison draft in A Handweaver's Pattern Book, page 191, titled "Monk's Belt in Summer and Winter Weave" chosen to obtain a MB look with the towel functionality of S&W
Yarn
Warp and Tabby Weft are 8/2 unmercerized cotton; pattern weft is 5/2 cotton.
EPI
24 sleyed 2/dent in 12 dent reed
Purpose
Towels
Guild
Associate Member
Collection
MAFA 2025 Towel Exchange
# of shafts
6
Weave Name
Summer and Winter
Weave Category
Plain Compound weaves
