Colourful Cottolin fabric is spotted with small pattern blocks

The inspiration for this project was the beautiful colour scheme of Cottolin yarns and the aim to blend them together.

The wide colour stripes are threaded and tied to form with false satin weave, but the narrow stripes are threaded to form twill. All colour stripes are broken with small pattern spots. By changing the treadling, the satin weave can be changed to twill and vice versa.

By shooting the weft colours according to the colour order of the warp you get small square towels or cloths with symmetrical colouring. The colours of the warp and the weft blend into a grid where the colours change from light corners to a dark middle.

Weave longer towels or tablecloths with one colour or stripes with two or more colours in this same warp!

Instructions for winding the warp

8 threads plum (2253)
40 ” powder pink (2209)
16 ” plum red
40 ” tea rose (2212)
16 ” blum red
40 ” burgundy red (2244)
64 ” blum red
64 ” dark violet (2298)
40 ” violet (2293)
16 ” dark violet
40 ” lavender (2245)
16 ” dark violet
40 ” powder pink
8 ” dark violet
448 threads in total

Amount of warp yarn needed, length 4,8 m
Cottolin 22/2 (22/2 Bomull Lin), tex 76×2, 1 kg = n. 6400 m
2253 plum (dark bluish-red) 80 g
2298 dark violet 80 g
2209 powder (ligth pink) 57 g
2244 burgundy red (dark red-purple) 28 g
2293 violet 28 g
2245 lavender (light violet) 28 g
2212 tea rose (orange rose) 28 g
329 g in total

Square hand towels

Finished size 51 x 54 cm, 3 pcs
Finished size after washing 47 x 49 cm

The density of the weave is 8 threads/cm. 1 square is 8 weft shots = 1cm. Weave 2 squares = 16 shots = 2 cm with the plum red for the border. Use the same colour order for the weft as is in the warp. The narrow blum red stripe at the beginning and the dark violet at end of the towel is 8 shots = 1 cm. Wide stripe is 40 shots = 5 cm and narrow stripe is 16 shots = 2 cm. Shape of the towel is a square.
The woven length was 62 cm, including borders á 2 cm = 4 cm.
The size when removed from the loom was 51 x 60 cm.

AMOUNT OF WEFT YARN NEEDED, 1 towel
Cottolin 22/2 (22/2 Bomull Lin), tex 76×2, 1 kg = n. 6400 m
2253 plum red 7 g
2298 dark violet 14 g
2209 powder 8 g
2244 burgundy red 5 g
2293 violet 5 g
2245 lavender 3 g
2212 tea rose 4 g
46 g in total

Finishing the towels

Sew the towel ends with 3-step aigzag stitches and cut the pieces apart. The inside allowance is 1 repeat unit = 1 cm. The finished border width is 1 cm. Sew borders by hand. Sew a hanging loop inside one corner of the towel. Loops are braided of the same yarns used in towels.

 

Dark table runner

Finished size 51 x 108 cm
Finished size after washing 47 x 99 cm

AMOUNT OF WEFT YARN NEEDED, 1 table runner
Cottolin 22/2 (22/2 Bomull Lin), tex 76×2, 1 kg = n. 6400 m
2253 blum red 52 g
2298 dark violet 34 g

WEAVING INSTRUCTIONS
The density of the weave is 8 picks/cm. One square is 8 picks = 1 cm. Start the table runner with 18 squares = 18 cm with plum red, including the border 2 squares = 2 cm.
Weave the table runner striped with dark violet and blum red according to the treadling instructions. One stripe is 16 squares = 16 cm. Weave 18 squares with the blum red at the end of the table runner, including the border.
The woven length is 121 cm, including the borders.
The size of the cloth after taken off the loom is 51 x 79 cm.

Light Pink table runner

Finished size 51 x 73 cm
Finished size after washing 47 x 67 cm

AMOUNT OF WEFT YARN NEEDED for 1 table runner
Cottolin 22/2 (22/2 Bomull Lin), tex 76×2, 1 kg = n. 6400 m
2209 powder pink 54 g

WEAVING INSTRUCTIONS
The density of the weave is 8 picks/cm. Weave the table runner with powder pink yarn according to the treadling instructions. The woven length is 85 cm, including the borders. The size of the cloth after taken off the loom is 51 x 79 cm.

Finishing the table runners

Sew the table runners ends with 3-step zigzag stitches and cut the pieces apart. The inside allowance is 1 square = 1 cm. The finished border width is 1 cm. Sew the borders by hand.