Kristi Chapman
I learned to weave at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts after I retired. Since then I have been furnishing the homes of all my family and friends with rugs, dishtowels, placemats, and napkins. I am grateful to my local weavers guild and to MLH for inspiration, guidance, and very welcome deadlines. I am also the librarian for our guild, so I can fondle over 600 fiber-related books on my basement shelves, perfect pandemic companions.
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Towel Five
15” x 22”
Parallel threaded warp; 4/4 tie-up, corkscrew twill treadling, as drawn in “on opposites,” using two shuttles of weft the same colors as the warp.
10/2 cotton,
8-harness Herald floor loom
$32
Description: This is one of eight towels woven from a warp of parallel threaded blue and white ends. I wanted to follow up on an excellent workshop by Robyn Spady at the 2017 MLH conference. We explored various weaving techniques possible with this M&W threading.
Towel Two
15.5” x 23”
Parallel threaded warp, twill treadling
10/2 cotton
8-harness Herald floor loom
$32
This is one of eight towels woven from a warp of parallel threaded blue and white ends. I wanted to follow up on an excellent workshop by Robyn Spady at the 2017 MLH conference. We explored various weaving techniques possible with this M&W threading. This is a twill treadling using a weft in a third color. I wove three more towels like this, each in a different weft color.
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