Playing With Huck Towels
Huck floats serve a useful purpose in towels which increase the surface area of the fiber providing a super absorbent fabric.
Floats have aesthetic advantages too. They reflect more light than plain weave, which makes them appear brighter and more lustrous, and they allow warp and weft threads to slip from the rigid alignment of plain weave into graceful curves and rounded shapes.
Yarns: Softspun 10/2 100% mercerized cotton
Finished size: five hemmed towels 15" by 26" each
Equipment needed: 4-shaft loom; 12 dent reed; 17 1/2 weaving width
Instructions needed: Best of Handwoven: Top Ten Dish Towels on Four Shaft eBook available from Long Thread Media for warping and weaving instructions.
Designed by Lynn Tedder
Floats have aesthetic advantages too. They reflect more light than plain weave, which makes them appear brighter and more lustrous, and they allow warp and weft threads to slip from the rigid alignment of plain weave into graceful curves and rounded shapes.
Yarns: Softspun 10/2 100% mercerized cotton
Finished size: five hemmed towels 15" by 26" each
Equipment needed: 4-shaft loom; 12 dent reed; 17 1/2 weaving width
Instructions needed: Best of Handwoven: Top Ten Dish Towels on Four Shaft eBook available from Long Thread Media for warping and weaving instructions.
Designed by Lynn Tedder