Weaving has started on the towels

I'll upload photos this evening.


Saturday was just too darn hot to do anything at all.  Heat really knocks me down.


Yesterday was also hot, but the garage felt nice and cool, and no one was doing laundry, so I had the place to myself downstairs.  I opened the door to the back yard and there was a slight through-breeze that made everything so much more comfortable.


I finished threading, sleyed the reed, tied on, and started the weaving proper.


I need to add another 5-pound weight to the weight pulley.


I don't much like the pattern, or the interplay between the pistachio and the pink.  Although I do like pink and light greens together, the color values of these two yarns are too close, so it's not popping. 


I think tonight I'll re-peg the dobby using a different draft. 


There were some tension problems as well; I think I need to return to the hairbrush technique before tying on.  Cotton is much harder to keep in even tension than either silk or wool.  Not as unforgiving as linen is, but still pesky.


Still, though, it doesn't look horrible.  Tonight I must tend to the re-pegging, perhaps brushing and re-tying some warp bundles, and trying other wefts too.  I have a feeling that the creamy Swedish linen wet-spun 2's will look good with the pistachio.  Also might try some silks as weft, for instance the leftover dyed muga from Carlos' scarf project.


I plyed several hundred yards of the wool I've been spinning.  Looks pretty good.