{"id":1729,"date":"2018-10-22T07:48:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2018-10-30T07:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:52:26","slug":"woven-cotton-dish-towels-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2018\/10\/22\/woven-cotton-dish-towels-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Woven Cotton Dish Towels (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"ngg-fancybox\" title=\"Interleaved set of towels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/IMG_5766-sm.jpg\" rel=\"\" data-image-id=\"538\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/IMG_5766-sm.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMG_5766-sm.jpg\" data-title=\"IMG_5766-sm\" data-description=\"Interleaved set of towels\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/gallery\/project-featured-images\/thumbs\/thumbs_IMG_5766-sm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5766-sm\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pattern:&nbsp;<\/strong> Two simple twills for the dish towels; and then I worked out a &#8220;waffle-ish&#8221; weave for the hand towels, based on the threading and a new tie up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yarns:&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warp:&nbsp; 8\/2 Cotton from The Mannings (white)<\/li>\n<li>Weft:&nbsp; 8\/2 Cotton from The Mannings (light green) for half the towels; 22\/2 Cottolin (dark green) for weft of the other half<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method:<\/strong>&nbsp; Weaving &#8212; 8 shaft<\/p>\n<p><strong>Set up:<\/strong>&nbsp; 7 1\/2 yards, 433 ends threaded at 20epi.&nbsp; Each towel woven to 38&#8243; on the loom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Completed:<\/strong>&nbsp; October 22, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I put on 7 1\/2 yards of warp, and wove 4 twill towels (two in each colour) and then figured out enough waffle weave to change the tie up of the shafts and make 2 waffle-ish towels as hand towels.&nbsp;&nbsp; There was, as expected, a lot of shrinkage once I washed them, although I was a bit surprised the waffle-ish ones didn&#8217;t shrink a lot more than the twill ones.&nbsp; On the whole, I was pleased with the dimensions of the resulting towels.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On loom: 21 1\/2\u201d at the reed; 19 1\/2\u201d-wide woven fabric on loom. Wove to 38\u201d-long under tension<\/li>\n<li>Off the loom: Waffle towels were 20\u201dW by 35 3\/4\u201dL; Dark \u201cdouble point lozenge\u201d twill was 19 1\/2\u201dW by 37\u201dL; Light \u201cdouble point lozenge\u201d twill was 19\u201dW by 37\u201dL<\/li>\n<li>Washed and dried: Light single diamond twill was 17 1\/4\u201dW by 30\u201dL; Dark waffle was 17 1\/4\u201dW by 28 3\/4\u201dL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pattern:&nbsp; Two simple twills for the dish towels; and then I worked out a &#8220;waffle-ish&#8221; weave for the hand towels, based on the threading and a new tie up. 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