{"id":4832,"date":"2013-10-11T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2013-10-07T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T22:45:02","slug":"handwoven-towels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/10\/handwoven-towels\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwoven Towels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some months ago I wove a whole bunch of placemats and a few table runners. They have generated approximately zero interest.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, my handwoven towels<\/a> have sold – not like gangbusters, but enough to make me want to weave more. The classic blue & white towels have been the most popular. I’d ordered a great red when I last winter and it took months for it to come in – guess it’s a really popular color. Since Christmas is coming I decided it was time to weave up some red & white towels.<\/p>\n

I put on a warp for eight towels. I wove four in stripes…
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…and four in plaid.<\/p>\n

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I use Halcyon yarn<\/a>‘s unmercerized 8\/2 cotton for my towels and sett them at 18EPI. I know this is looser than some other weavers use, but I like them this weight. I’ve had some of my customers tell me that they are thirstier than other handwoven towels, and I think it’s because they’re are a bit looser – more surface area to soak up water.<\/p>\n

While I hand hem my scarves and shawls I machine hem the towels, after they’re wet finished, using the magic walking foot. What a terrific attachment for a sewing machine. I hope whoever invented it made a mint – it’s beautifully simple and remarkably effective. <\/p>\n

If these sell, I’ll weave more towels. I may even if they don’t – they make great gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some months ago I wove a whole bunch of placemats and a few table runners. They have generated approximately zero interest.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, my handwoven towels have sold – not like gangbusters, but enough to make me want to weave more. The classic blue & white towels have been the most popular. I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[530,304],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}