With the leftover warp from the Wandering Vine Coverlet, I made some all cotton towels.
The warp is 10/2 American Maid Cotton, same as for the wool coverlet.
Wandering Vine All Cotton Towels, fresh off the loom
The weft is Maurice Brassard Cotton in various colors. I had to double up the pattern threads, so I used the shuttle with 2 spools. It was not working to wind both strings onto the same spool.
All the towels turned out quite well. A few special people will be getting some hand-made towels in the coming year. ;-) They all have a nice hand -- what you would expect for towels. As I understand it, they will improve with use, washing and drying will improve their absorbancy.
I varied the pattern repeats, too, as I wanted to see how much they would shrink and just what makes a good size for a kitchen / tea towel.
On the loom under tension, they measured about 36 inches wide.
After wet-finishing, they shrunk to 32-1/2 inches wide. There is always more take-up than you'd expect. The measurements below do not count the bits that are folded under for the hems at the tops and bottoms.
They are all slightly different lengths (or widths, depending on your perspective), in part because I wanted to test out some different sizes for towels -- and because I filled only so many bobbins and didn't want to waste the Brassard cotton.
Red - 32-1/2 in x 20-1/2 inches with 4 pattern repeats.
Sky Blue - 32-1/2 in x 24 inches with 5 pattern repeats.
The actual blue is lighter than it shows in the photo.
Green - 32-1/2 in. x 24-1/2 inches with 5 pattern repeats.
Indigo - 32-1/2 in x 15 inches with 3 pattern repeats. My husband claimed this one, as he thought it was the perfect size and color for his blue kitchen.
Here it is hanging in it's rightful place on the oven door handle in the kitchen.
1 comment:
These are really lovely. And how great that the hubby appreciates your work so as to claim one for his own. He deserves it as he has helped you so much with the setting up of that "new" big loom.
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