Japanese indigo throw

Warp and weft: 8/2 cotton, indigo hand-dyed and sourced by a friend from Japan

Warp includes narrow strips of 8/2 cotton in natural

18 EPI

Width: 55” on loom (double weave)

990 ends (800 ends indigo and 6 warps @ 32 ends/ea natural)

100” warp

Double weave in tabby

Finishing: Machine wash on cold, tumble dry delicate

Finished size: 46” x 53”

Notes: A lot of breaking warp threads - I think that the indigo cotton wasn’t as strong as some other cottons I’ve used for warping. The indigo threads also seemed to stick a fair amount - not as bad as wool threads, but still enough to make winding the warp on the back beam difficult, which was the primary cause of a lot of the breakage.

Again, a lot of shrinkage - especially in width (I lost 9 inches!) I know that some of this is because of the nature of double weave, but it’s at least 8” of shrinkage and/or draw-in for width. I could have woven another 5-6” but the breakage got so bad at the end, I bailed, and I left 7” of fringe (3 1/2” on each end), so total length was more in the neighborhood of 60”, meaning 40” of loom waste and shrinkage (as reference for future weaving projects with cotton).