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Instant Vintage Towels
Designed by Mary Unger
Using just one cone each of Mallo Cotton Slub and Beam 3/2 Organic Cotton, these soft, pillowy towels are woven with an extremely open weft sett, creating the texture and drape of a well-loved vintage linen. The warp-predominant structure “fades” the weft color, giving the cloth a distinctly antiqued look. Create your own weft stripe design to give your towels a personalized, idiosyncratic pattern of color and texture, or weave as shown. Order a kit.
I wove these towels to specification, and they are nice looking, but am not happy with the resulting fabric with it's very open sett. I wish the sett and PPI had been higher to give a sturdier feeling towel. A good learning experience for me on what types of fabric I like/don't like.
I used two different weft methods as the first towel I made came out very thin using the suggested yarns. Second towel was made a medium weight vanilla cotton alternating with two strands of the Mallo.
I loved this draft. As a beginner it was very easy to read and follow!
These were so fun and easy to weave. After washing they were instantly soft, even in my hard water!
I have not yet woven the pattern but working on shifting to include maybe a bit of Leno Lace as a border interest.
