Center of Earthtone Towe

Center of Earthtone Towel Kit

April 18, 2024

A luscious combination of our American Maid™ sustainable cotton and a collection of amazing earth-tone shades of Bold Lyte Hemp.  These towels are soft and strong and are sure to become your favorite towels!  They make impressive gifts and are even better to keep for yourself.  The kit makes 2 towels.

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Anni Albers Best of Both Worlds Towel

Best of Both Worlds – Masters Towel Kit with Hemp

March 29, 2024

The best of both worlds.  Mercerized Cotton Warp and Hemp weft!   This kit makes 3 generous towels using 3 colors of 10/2 Tubular Spectrummercerized cotton yarn, and 3 colors of Bold Lyte Hemp™ yarn.  You can choose your favorite colorway:  Anni Albers, Ansel Adams, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, and Pierre-August Renoir.  Woven in 2 blocks to create a visually complex towel that is fun and easy to weave.   Finished towels are approximately 17″ x 29″.  Kit includes instructions for both 4 and 8-shaft looms.  These towels are breathtakingly inspired by our 100% cotton Masters Towels in the same colorways. 

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4ply American Maid Yarn

4-ply American Maid Yarn

February 29, 2024

This is a loosely cabled 4-ply yarn made from 4 strands of 10/2 American Maid™ cotton yarn.  It is a fun and interesting yarn.  Amber has been playing with it in crochet projects and loves using it.  When it is gone, we will not be restocking this yarn.  Get it while it lasts!

Available on 8oz cones.  Each cone contains approximately 525 yards.  Enough for 5 washcloths or what ever else you want to make with it!

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American Maid Yarn

American Maid™ Naturally Colored Yarn

November 9, 2023

Sustainably grown, colorful cotton yarn straight from American cotton fields to you!  This American made yarn is available in the colors that it is grown in, no dye required!  Available in:  Dark Brown, Light Brown, Dark Green, Light Green, Natural White (the color of “white” cotton before it is bleached) and now Bleached White in 3/2, 8/2, and 10/2.  Additionally, Natural White is also available in 6/2, 12/2 and 20/2*. Click here for the additional sizes of Natural White.

To order, choose the yarn color by clicking on the swatches shown below, then choose your yarn size and cone size from the drop down menus.

 

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American Maid™ Unmercerized White Cotton Yarn

November 9, 2023

Natural white, sustainably produced, unmercerized cotton yarn.  Perfect for all your soft handwoven items.  Strong enough for warp in any of the sizes, and soft and absorbent for anything you can dream up.  It makes wonderful towels, baby blankets, napkins, or cuddly throws.

*As of 2022, the 20/2 size is only available as a NON-American Made yarn.  The cotton in the 20/2 yarn currently comes from Egypt.  All the other yarn sizes are 100% American Made.

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27 Color Gamp Plus Kit

November 9, 2023

Add value to your color exploration.  27 cones of color: 5 shades of gray, all 20 Tubular Spectrum™ colors, plus black and white make an expanded color and value gamp. The kit with 1.5 oz cones contains enough yarn and instructions to weave a beautiful, colorful shawl as well as a 40″ square gamp.  Instructions are included for the 8 harness twill block pattern that makes these colors sing.

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Beginner to Intermediate  (One fish). This is a Four or Eight harness kit. 

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20 Color Gamp Kit

November 9, 2023

Color gamps are a brilliant way to explore color interactions.  They will help you predict future color interactions and take the guess work out of project planning.  This kit contains the original twenty Tubular Spectrum™ bright and brilliant colors and includes instructions to weave color gamps!

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Beginner to Intermediate (One fish). This is a Four to Eight harness kit.  The 3/2 size yarn also has instructions for making gamps on the rigid heddle loom.

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Enchanted Windowpane Towels

Enchanted Windowpane Towels

September 20, 2023

Combine a hemp warp with 5 colors of 10/2 American Maid naturally colored cotton to weave 5 lovely fingertip towels (finished size approximately 13” x 24”).  The hemp yarn is our new Lyte Hemp, and we make the American Maid™ yarns from cotton grown here in the American west and spun in the US.  When you wash the finished towels with baking soda, the color of the naturally colored cotton yarns will deepen.  The green cotton is especially affected by the alkalinity of the wash water. And, the colors will deepen over time.

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Color On Your Table Kit

September 20, 2023

Get ready for your next festive occasion with this stylish table cloth.  Enough yarn to weave 2 squares (approximately 32″ x 32″ finished) or one large rectangular cloth.  This cloth will brighten up any event.

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Intermediate to Advanced (Two fish). This is an Eight harness kit. 

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Splash! Towels

Splash! Towel Kit

April 8, 2023

Make a Splash!  You will be the envy of everyone at the pool, the beach, the spa or even in your own bathroom!  This kit makes two towels woven with soft 10/2 American Maid ™ unmercerized cotton warp and amazing, thirsty Lyte Hemp weft yarn.  An 8-shaft Crepe weave structure from the incredible Alice Schlein makes these towels as absorbent as they are gorgeous! (Finished size approximately 28” x 48”).

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Autumn Equinox Towel Instructions

November 21, 2022

Use 7 cozy colors of 10/2 Tubular Spectrum™ mercerized cotton yarn to make these towels to warm your hearth. This one-shuttle Turned Taquete (aka Jin) weave structure makes towels to match the season. This kit comes with enough yarn to make four dishtowels.  With this 8-shaft pattern, you can make both the towels with the circles and the towels with the blocks.  Thanks to Susan Poague who designed the circle draft.  Her original towels can be found in Handwoven May/June 2019. Choose either 4 or 8-shaft instructions.

If you would like both drafts and all the yarns to make the kit, click here.

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Autumn Equinox Towel Kit

November 4, 2022

Use 7 cozy colors to make these towels to warm your hearth. This one-shuttle Turned Taquete (aka Jin) weave structure makes towels to match the season. This kit comes with enough yarn to make four dishtowels.  Kit includes both an 8-shaft and a 4-shaft pattern.  With the 8-shaft pattern, you can make both the towels with the circles and the towels with the blocks, and with the 4-shaft pattern you can make the towels with the blocks. Thanks to Susan Poague who designed the circle draft.  Her original towels can be found in Handwoven May/June 2019.

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A Place in Time Cowl Yarn Collection

October 21, 2022

Weave a Place in Time and create this beautiful cowl designed by Rebecca Morris and featured in the November/December 2022 issue of Handwoven Magazine.  It uses 8/2 unmercerized cotton yarn to make a lovely cowl.  We have created this yarn collection with the right amounts of all of the yarns to make one or two cowls as shown in the magazine.

You can purchase the pattern from Handwoven by clicking here.

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Big Wrap Beach Blanket Yarn Collection

May 10, 2022

Cynthia Newman and our very own Katzy Luhring collaborated to make this wonderful beach blanket that is shown in Handwoven May/June 2022 page 68-70 from Long Thread Media!  This soft and luscious towel is woven on 4-shafts using 100% American Maid™ Naturally Colored Cotton Yarn!   We have collected the American Maid yarns you will need to make the towel…you will need to purchase the instructions from Long Thread Media. Click here to purchase the pattern.

Finished towel size after wet finishing:  39″ x 73″ plus 2.5″ fringe.

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Lyte Hemp Gorgeous Grays

Lyte Hemp Collections

May 4, 2022

Would you like a collection of Lyte Hemp™ Yarns?  These collections have mini cones of all the colors we have in stock right now.

The yarn comes in two sizes:  Bold and Fine.  Lyte HempBold is a wonderful 2-ply yarn with approximately 2,600 Yards per pound and approximately 240 yards on a mini cone.  And Lyte HempFine is a thinner 2-ply yarn with approximately 5,000 yards per pound and approximately 470 yards per mini cone. Would you like to purchase individual cones of the Lyte Hemp Yarn?  Click here for Lyte HempBold Yarns or here for Lyte Hemp Fine Yarns.

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Broad and Deep Towel Collection

February 2, 2022

We have assembled the yarns to make Christine Jablonski’s Broad and Deep Towels as shown in Handwoven Jan/Feb 2022 from Long Thread Media, page 58.  We have collected the Maurice Brassard yarns you will need to make these towels. You will need to purchase the instructions from Long Thread Media.

If you would like to make the towels with other colors, click here for more colors.  You will need two 8 oz cones and 1 1.5 oz mini cone to make the 4 towels as shown in the instructions.

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Blue Toasty Cowl--10B weft

Toasty Turned Tacquete Cowls

November 16, 2021

Warm up the cold days with three toasty warm cowls!!  Three different weft colors will give you 3 different, yet related cowls.  Using a 4-shaft loom, 5/2 Tubular Spectrum™ Mercerized cotton yarn and ONE SHUTTLE, these toasty turned taquete cowls are as fun to weave as they are to wear.  Brew a pot of tea and get comfy.

Now available in Original and Blue colorways.  Scroll down for more information.

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Harvest Party Napkin Kit

November 8, 2021

Weave an elegant set of 4 napkins for that harvest party you have planned.  Or plan one around these lovely napkins.  You can weave them all the same or use different treadlings for each napkin for a matching, yet different set.  The 4 napkins will be approximately 17” x 17” when finished.  4 and 8-shaft instructions are included.

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