Rainbow Towels Finished

Finished towels

Towels In Progress

Warping the loom and adjusting everything wasn’t nearly has much of a chore as had been described.  I would the instructions in Joanne Hall’s Tying up the Countermarch Loom to be incredibly helpful.  I really don’t like fiddling with the Texsolv anchor pins when trying to get them into the bottom of the treadles.  It’s a pain in the behind and hurts my hands.  I think at some point I’ll be converting to the Vävstuga Tie-Up System, of which I have heard good things.  Also I bump by head on the bottom of the vertical countermarch a lot while climbing inside the loom.  ~ow~  Still, it is a dream to weave on.

Anyways, the towels are now well underway and I’m liking the way they are turning out.

Towels in progress

Can you see the stars?

Rainbow Star Towels

For a first project I thought I’d try something simple to learn the loom using familiar materials, namely 8/2 unmercerized cotton.

The plan – rainbow star tea towels.

Computer-generated drawdown (partial)