A Little Taquete with Anita

Anita sharing her Taquete towels.

According to "Weft-Faced Pattern Weaves Tabby to Taquete" by Nancy Arthur Hoskins,"...taquete is a weft-faced compound tabby weave that is also known as---weft-faced Summer and Winter weave, weft-faced polychrome Summer and Winter weave (without tabby) and weft-faced two-tie unit weave."

Strips Photo Shoot

Washed and pressed and ready for the kitchen. I like these small towels. They should do a good job in the kitchen. I used red, purple and white as my wefts on this multi-colored strip warp. My goal was to hide a pattern strip in a color strip.

I was surprised at the amount of tracking, but I think that adds to the effect. I liked both sides, so turned the hem to reflect that on one of the towels.

Woven Shibori Towels with Dish Rags

Here are three of my woven Shibori towels with their matching knitted dish rags. I am very pleased with the towels and even the way the dish rags took the dye. The towels are 8/2 cotton warp and weft while the knitted dish rags are "Sugar and Cream" cotton. I had a lot of fun weaving and knitting then dying.

On this dish rag I added an extra 'flower' to help when extra scrubbing is needed!

Back to Towels

OK, I have finished with the bookmarks. I have a nice supply if I need to give a 'just because' to someone. I found these warps on the top shelf and thought.... hummm... how about towels. Should be colorful! My notes say these are 8/2 cotton. I will dent them at 20 epi.

Here is the draft drawdown.

Shibori Treadling Options

I am still weaving on the towel warp and my shibori resist threads. I have the loom threaded to a Bronson design, and am playing with the treadling. I have two treadles tied to plain weave, so my base cloth will be plain weave. I have a total of 10 treadles tied up, but with this next towel I am only going to use 4 treadles for the resist pattern and two for the plain weave. Just because I have 10 treadles tied up does not mean I must use them all. Remember, I am thinking 'out side the box' while weaving this Woven Shibori!

I really don't have the treadles tied up as the original draft wanted. It called for 12 treadles, so I modified them to only 10 and made sure I had some kind of floats that would work as the resist.

I could use one treadle throughout or mix and match. (Using only one treadle throughout would give me columns.) Designing on the loom is fun!

Woven Shibori Towels

Onto another warp of Woven Shibori. This time I am working on weaving some towels with 8/2 cotton warp and weft. The resist thread is 5/2 cotton.

I have gotten my resist pattern form "The Bulletin". This is put out by the Guild of Canadian Weavers. I am a member of this group. They have a real - life - touch - feel - sample in each newsletter!

The Summer 2012 issue had the sample:  Diagonal Bronson Lace 8 S Sample by the Monashee Weavers. I did a little playing around with the treadling, but used their threading. Lots of different weave structures work well with woven shibori. Just make sure your floats are long enough to give you a nice area to resist the dye.


I will dye these towels this summer.