For my next adventure in doubleweave, I used two 10 dent heddles threaded with 3/2 Pearl Cotton in wine, melon and natural.
The natural and wine colors were threaded for the bottom layer and the wine and the melon were threaded for the top.
First I wove two towels in two layer double weave. Being mindful of my shrinkage issues with the last towels, I made sure to use a guide string. I used wine for the bottom weft and melon for the top weft.
That nice little pull on the bottom layer is curtesy of my 2 year old son ;)
I next wove Heddle 1 up, heddle 1 down, heddle 2 up, heddle 2 down using the same guide string I used for the towels. For the weft, I alternated two picks of wine and two picks of melon.
It was very interesting to see how a change in weft color so drastically alters the appearance of the weave. The light weft in below places more emphasis on the weft and the weave appears weft faced. The opposite is true with the dark weft which appears more warp faced. Now, granted, this is all under tension on the loom and after wet finishing will probably even out.
Finally I wove the rest of the warp with tubular double weave. I used two wefts and interlocked them at each selvedge.
Fast forward a few hours.....
And the fabric is off the loom!!!!!!!!
I had a few warp floats on the edge of the white and wine towel :(
Now into the washer and the dryer.....
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