Towel weaving

Soak it all up... every ounce of it! These colors just feel good! The more, the merrier! Ahh... ...

What makes one handwoven towel better than the next? Tracy has some theories and explains her process of weaving 'perfect' towels.

New towels for our new home! M & W threading, 2/2 twill kitchen towels.

Learn to weave on a floor loom online or in person at our private lakefront studio located in Bobcaygeon Ontario. Our weaving classes are specifically designed for beginners - no experience necessary! Kawartha Weaving also offers more advanced classes for experienced handweavers.

Weave a set of Running Stitch towels to match your Running Stitch Napkins (another free pattern from Gist). This pattern, designed by Christine Jablonski, uses two contrasting colors of Duet, our Cotton/Linen weaving yarn designed specifically for weavers.

I’m excited to finally be able to reveal what I’ve been working away on over the last few months: a set of woven tea towels for my Mum’s birthday! These turned out so well. :) Not…

Cheerful cotton/linen towels for a time when clean hands are of utmost importance.

I had two reasons for warping up my floor loom for some new towels recently. With our house moving date looming closer, I felt the need for a “sanity project”. While all of my yarns and equipment were being packed away, I kept a few cones aside so that I would have something to weave...Read More

Hardwearing Handtowels. This weave is lovely and very useful as a hand towel. I do not know what it is called. The two pattern blocks are in a 2/1 twill with an additional pick. The warp is one colour - unbleached cotton - so the colour is only in the weft. This means that if a long warp is put on the loom, several towels of different colours can be woven. This is a block weave. There are three blocks to treadle. The first is the border for the hem. The next two blocks alternate to form the…

In this Lo Meets Loom vlog, Felicia Lo Wong talks about the thing she has just cut off the loom – the Halvdräll Towel weaving project!

Close up the Halcyon Waffle Weave Dish Towels Kit on the Loom

On the rigid-heddle loom, Susan E. Horton designs gorgeous towels and napkins that have all the drape and absorbency of a floor loom–woven towel but with much less time spent warping.

Learn to weave a classic set of striped towels on your rigid heddle or multi-shaft loom.

After the striped tea towels that I wove in June there was still some small cones of cottolin left so I decided to mke one more tea towel warp to finish the cones off. I started with a draft that I had used last year that had ribbon like stripes thinking that it would be good in using up the all the colours. This was a time consuming draft to make because I measured each colour separately in order to have an accurate thread count, and then I wound the thread back onto the cone. This ensured…

Most weavers enjoy a good challenge, and the May/June 2020 issue of Handwoven is chock full of projects resulting from weaving challenges.

Wound the warp today. I forgot to tie the cross on the last bout and didn’t notice until the first part of the cross dropped off the warp while chaining it. Oh crap! I caught the one side of it an...

Rigid Heddle Waffle Weave Towels