Yesterday I managed to get in four hours at the loom, and I finished weaving the Perugia Towels and drew them off the loom. I started wet-finishing, too, and as I sit here typing, the length of cotton and linen that will be cut into individual towels is draped over a tall glass door, drying. I'm very much looking forward to steam-pressing them and then cutting them apart in preparation for hemming and finishing.
Above you can see the length of cloth, after wet-finishing and fulling, being stretched out over the top of the frosted glass door - you can see the same color motif through the transparent door.
I love the wet-finishing stage; the cloth comes from the loom 'notte comeleye for the Wearinge', really still in a way a bunch of threads; the wet-finishing equalizes the tension of the piece and spreads it out over the whole textile so that the textile is energetically unified. The differences between unfinished and post-finished is amazing.
Above you can see two of the four towels drying while draped over the door. The thin dark line between the other blue stripes is the place where the towels are to be cut apart prior to hemming.
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