dusky rusty tea towels

Draft:  Coastal linen towels (no longer published by Gist Yarn)

Warp: Gist 3/2 Beam in White (2 cones) and Gist Duet (linen/cotton) in Dusk and Rust (1 cone/ea)
3.5-yard warp

10 EPI
20” on reed
198 ends

Warp:
6 dusk
33 white
5 rust (10 total)
21 blue (42 total)
5 white
13 rust (26 total)
5 blue (10 total)
53 white
5 rust (10 total)
15 blue (30 total)
23  white
14 rust (28 total)

Wove first and last inch of each towel with sewing thread (should have matched color better, as the thread shows when you roll the hem). No hemstitching - instead, rolled the hems and sewed with zigzag stitch.

Finished: Two towels 15” x 28” and a third towel 15” x 25” (needed another 6” of warp to make all three the same size).

Notes: Duet is doubled (both through the reed and through the heddle). My tie-up was incorrect - last treadle was tied up 2/4 instead of 1/4, which resulted in a different (but still attractive) texture pattern. The towels are beautiful, but I worry they’re a little soft, and possibly not woven tightly enough; I can see how this pattern would work better with a 100% linen yarn (as the draft originally called for).