Thursday, December 14, 2017

Twill It Is

By dinnertime, I finished weaving shawl #2, using the broken twill from the previous post.

And in extreme closeup:

The cloth is slightly more open than the plain weave version, because although each individual warp end is doing the two-up, two-down dance, the weft alternates between over-two, under-two on even picks, and over-one, under-one on odd picks. If the tieup were rotated 90 degrees, the warp and weft would trade dance steps.

The twill version feels much less crisp than the plainweave piece because it has a little more breathing room. I'm wondering how much difference there will be after wet finishing!

Next up, a crepe version. Stay tuned.


Alice said...

Hooray for crepe! Here are gorgeous, and will be doubly gorgeous after post-processing. It looks like you had lots of fun in the planning phase. I look forward to seeing more pictures.

Alice said...

What I meant to type was "These are gorgeous"

Teresa Ruch said...

Can't wait to see them after finishing. Will you share the % of shrinkage?

Sandra Rude said...

Hi, Teresa, I'll try to remember to measure pre- and post-finishing. At this point, all I know is that they're 22 inches in the reed, but that will be less the minute the tension is released.