happy white towels
I'm a technology phobe, so using my digital camera is kind of a challenge for me. I've mastered the point-and-shoot option, but the more technical aspects of the 100-page manual escape me. The point-and-shoot mode was not up to the task of taking photos of my completely white, low contrast weaving projects. So today (since I was postcall and mentally incapable of doing more useful work) I sat down with the manual and figured out how to turn on the close focus, no flash options and then puttered around taking the pictures of my boring white towels for my website. All of these patterns are charted for weavers by Carolyn Priest-Dorman in Medieval Textiles (either issue 30 or 31).
You might notice here that I really, really like white towels with lozenge patterns.
This first one is a 6 shaft diamond twill from a fragment in the Vatican Museo Sacro (T-27). It is 22/2 cottolin set at 30 epi.
This next one is a 12 shaft pavy gebrochene weave from the 14th century Godehard Chausuble, woven to use up the remaining yarn from the project above and to test my new 16 shaft loom. (The weave should be 14 shafts, but I had an idiot moment when threading and decided not to completely rethread it. I just changed the gaps between the main elements to 3 threads instead of 4). This is 22/2 cottolin set at 24 epi instead of 30.
This last one is an 8 shaft pavy lisere weave that I wove for
belfebe's elevation to the Laurel. This one was a total bear to photograph, because the pattern is so subtle that it completely washes out in direct light (and I do mean completely!). This is 40/2 linen set at 30 epi.
