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Here They Are!
Here's a peek at the first two of the "Hidden Jewels" towels on the loom.
The first was done with a black weft for the entire towel (the lighter colored band is the sewing thread section that will be folded into the hem). Here it is getting started ~
Look close - they aren't all the same twills! (I'll put a larger version of this picture over in the Gallery) I had fun playing with the threading for this design. First time using a drafting program on the computer! Woohoo!! Maybe I got a little carried away...
And here is a look at the second towel, which will soon be finished also ~
As you can see, this one has alternating bands of all three colors. I'm not quite as happy with it as I thought I would be, but I was already 7 or 8 inches into the towel before I decided that - and even though I wasn't thoroughly thrilled with it, it was alright and didn't merit a massive un-weaving effort. So this is how it shall stay. Hopefully once it's up for sale it will find someone out there that appreciates it more fully and will give it a loving home.
I think I'll go for more of a plaid type effect next time by varying the width of the stripes and maybe mixing the order together differently. Still need to figure out the details though.
So I'm curious - what do you think of the overall look of this second towel?
8 comments
I love the colors, but then i love bright colors anyways.
i'm new in this but varying the stripes in the weft would look better.i'm so glad someone else likes more colorful towels :)
Surprisingly (to me) I like the first towel better - but I think that might just be the weave-geek in me coming out - I like that you can see the varied twills because of the contrast between the black and the other colors.
I just peeked at some asymmetrical handwoven towels in my kitchen. The weft stripes are proportioned the same way as the warp stripes....so they're asymmetrical in both warp and weft. (I hope that makes some sense to you.) I wonder how your next towel would look if you wove that way. It sounds like you're already thinking along those lines!
Love, love, love the colors!
Sue
that black offsets the pink n blue/green nicely. it's not easy to get those two working together happily, but i think you've got it.
as for twills, i've had a lot of fun with diamond twills, but i've always made a proper hash of the colours while doing them.
i guess i'm a straight draft chap at heart.
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