Clashy bright perle cotton Bollywoodish dish towels...



I started weaving two nights ago, finally, after whipping through the threading, sleying, tying on, and pegging the dobby (sounds so suggestive!).

 

To my delight, there were no threading or sleying errors whatsoever.  I'm glad I check every sixteen threads for threading mistakes, so that clearly helps.

 

The pattern is quite dramatic to see in person.  It has an embossed aspect to it, and is much more beautiful to see in person than in the photograph of this pattern I had seen (looked like it had been woven very loosely, with little design definition).  But I sett the warp closer, and below is the result:

 

The design is called 'firebird', but it looks to me like a combination of stylized bats and fun stick figures.  Mostly, though, I apprehend this design not as a figurative one but just as it is.

 

The bright colors are cheery and fun to work with.  The pearl cotton has quite a sheen, too.

 

Next time, in the vein of kitchen towels, I'll either use 8/2 or even 20/2, rather than the 5/2, which was a bit too heavy a yarn for kitchen towels.