Our Weaving Kits take the guesswork out of weaving. With the right amount of yarn, pretty color combinations and easy to follow instructions you will enjoy your loom all over again.
Check out this easy to weave, cheerful dish towel kit! It has been a favorite among our weavers year after year!
Each kit contains enough yarn for four large dishtowels 22" x 32" plus lots of extra warp and weft for sampling, plus a pattern you can tweak to use with your other yarns over and over again.
The Caribbean Dish Towel kit contains our durable and high quality 8/2 Cotton weaving yarn you have come to love
Hand woven dish towels also make great gifts too!
Requirements: You will need a four harness loom, 10 dent reed, minimum of 22 inch weaving width.
Lovely Cotton Boucle dish towel kit reminiscent of the Hulda Klager Lilac Garden in Woodland, Washington.
Colorful terry cloth squares in Periwinkle, Royal and Turquoise are framed by yellow borders that add highlights and structure to this easy to weave kit.
Both the warp and weft are woven with Cotton Boucle yarn and make an extra thirsty towel. Plain weave (tabby) makes weaving easy.
Weaving instructions are written for four harness looms, but this can also be woven on a rigid heddle loom with a 15 dent reed (this will change the dimensions slightly)
Sett 16 dpi, 8 dent reed, 22" weaving width. Kit makes four generous towels with plenty of warp for sampling.
Pattern for above kit only. Downloadable weaving instructions. Pattern uses one cone each of Cotton Boucle yarn in Royal, Periwinkle, Turquoise and Yellow. Optional small amount of 8/2 cotton in yellow for hems.
Weave two scarves with super drapy 8/2 bamboo yarn. Hard to capture in an image, but this hand woven bamboo scarf to the left has an iridescent quality to it.
It just simply shimmers. This weaving pattern is an 8 harness twill, but other twills will work just the same. Colors are Magenta and Turquoise
Length of warp 6.5 yards, with in reed 8.5 inches, 7.5 after shrinkage. Set at 24 dpi, 12 dent reed.. 8 harness loom required.
Downloadable weaving instructions so that you can use your own yarn. Pattern uses 2 cones of 8/2 bamboo yarn in contrasting colors, (one cone per color) but can also be woven with 8/2 cotton yarn. Colors used in sample are Magenta and Turquoise or choose your favorite colors
This weaving kit makes thick, thirsty towels that you will love!
Waffle weave is usually woven on four or more shafts but you can make these smart and useful towels on your rigid heddle loom with Ashford Yoga yarn.
This yarn is so easy to weave- the best of both worlds- strength and elasticity of nylon and the natural comfort and beauty of cotton. Makes three towels measuring 16.5" x 27".
You will need:
Rigid Heddle loom of 20" weaving width or greater, Two 12.5 dent reeds