{"id":192,"date":"2015-11-02T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2015-11-28T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T14:42:46","slug":"the-cambridge-tea-towel-a-detective-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/archives\/192","title":{"rendered":"The Cambridge Tea-towel – A detective story"},"content":{"rendered":"

We visited Cambridge relatives last weekend and While \"Cambridge<\/a> I was there I noticed a really good tea-towel, neatly washed and pressed and in use to protect an appointments book from muddy cat prints. (It’s in a nice sunny sitting place).<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmmm… I thought, that’s an interesting pattern. The yarns looked familiar though – I still have cones of those cottons and linen, in those colours! It must be one of mine. However I have no recollection of weaving it all. I took pictures and have spent the last week going through my notes (nothing there) and my books and magazines …. ditto.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"cam1\"<\/a>Bother, I’d like to repeat that, so I’ll see if I can figure out the pattern!\u00a0Looks like there are 2 blocks and it has to be do-able with 8 shafts, since it would have been woven on the old loom, or my table loom.<\/em><\/p>\n

Both blocks have to weave as 3-1 twill, but not at the same time :-). \u00a0When the first is weaving twill the other seems to have 3 threads up for 3 picks, then 1 pick reversed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fir\"camdraft\"e up the weaving software (Fiberworks Bronze<\/a>) and start experimenting. Ta-da!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

Now I just have to work out a sett and weave it. \u00a0(I should have put something on the photo to scale, but it’s probably best to go back to the yarns and work it all out again.<\/em><\/p>\n

A productive morning.<\/em><\/p>\n

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