Sweetheart Towels
Oh, the heart’s desire! You’re going to fall in LOVE with these towels!
Weave four beautiful heart towels on your 8-shaft loom. The advancing twill pattern provides the heart borders, and then the body of the towel is woven with a fancy twill that creates a “sweet” texture. We have included yarn and instructions to make two pink towels and two red towels using our 10/2 Tubular Spectrum™ mercerized cotton yarns. The finished sizes of the towels are approximately 16” x 24”.
Heart pattern from Weaver’s Design Collection Twill Thrills page 52-54. The heart pattern was originally designed by Kim Marie Bunke for Weaver’s Magazine.
Sweet and Simple Towel Kit
These soft, sustainable towels are quick and easy to weave on your rigid heddle loom. Make yourself a fabulous thick and sustainable towel that is a pleasure to hold onto!
We include instructions for weaving one towel using plain weave, and one towel using a pickup stick. If you don’t want to use a pickup stick, you can weave the towels in plain weave. Scroll down for more information.
Star Spangled Towel Instructions/WIF
Just in time for your summer picnic! These instructions will help you weave four towels that are as American as apple pie on your 8-shaft loom! The overshot pattern is a modified “Star of Bethlehem”. The finished sizes of the towels are approximately 16” x 29”.
You can choose just the instructions or include the WIF files too. For this project, there are two WIF files for towels with two blue stripes and towels with 3 blue stripes. All picks are included in the WIF files.
Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level is Intermediate to Advanced (Three fish). If you would like more information about our Listen to the Loon rating system, click here.
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Over The Moon Towel Kit
Oh! How we love hemp dishtowels! These are pretty enough for company (or those special gifts!) and sure to be a favorite at home for their brilliant colors and absorbency. These overshot wonders are a combination of Tubular Spectrum™ cotton and our Lyte™ Hemp yarns, the best combination for absorbent towels. Jean Jordan adapted a draft from Sharon Alderman’s book Mastering Weave Structures, page 136 when she designed these lovely towels. Kit makes 3 towels.
Now available in 2 colorways! Please scroll down for more information
Autumn Equinox Towel Kit
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.
Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Intermediate (Three fish)
Star Spangled Towels
Just in time for your summer picnic!
Weave four towels that are as American as apple pie on your 8-shaft loom! The overshot pattern is a modified “Star of Bethlehem”. We have included yarn and instructions to make four DYNAMITE towels using our 10/2 and 5/2 Tubular Spectrum™ mercerized cotton yarns. The finished sizes of the towels are approximately 16” x 29”.
Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level is Intermediate to Advanced (Three fish). This is an Eight harness kit.
Naturally Colored Spa Towel Kit
Who wouldn’t want to reach for a fluffy, handwoven bath towel when you step out of the shower or bath? These towels make great gifts, sure to impress even the most discerning of newlyweds! And, for the best part…they weave up quickly. The towels come in either brown or green and are made from our own American Maid 100% Naturally Colored Cotton Yarn. The kit makes 2 delightful bath towels (finished size approximately 31” x 64”). Woven with soft 8/2 unmercerized cotton yarn, and a 4 or 8-shaft waffle weave structure, these towels have a delicious softness. Treat yourself or your loved ones to some new towels!
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Sumptuous Color Spa Towel Kit
It is truly luxurious to wrap up in a fluffy, handwoven bath towel when you step out of the shower or bath. These towels make great gifts, sure to impress even the most discerning of newlyweds! The towels come with soft natural white for the body of the towel, and you choose your favorite accent color from our Maurice Brassard collection to customize these towels! And, for the best part…they weave up quickly. The kit makes 2 delightful bath towels (finished size approximately 31” x 64”). Woven with soft 8/2 unmercerized cotton yarn, and a 4 or 8-shaft waffle weave structure, these towels have a delicious softness. Treat yourself or your loved ones to some new towels!
Au Natural Towel Kit
This towel kit from DJE Handwovens features our American Maid™ naturally color cotton yarn. This kit makes two towels and comes with either green or brown cotton yarns. The warp is prewound and ready to put directly onto your loom. Weave with either a Rigid Heddle loom or other 2 shaft loom. As with all of the naturally colored cotton yarns, the colors deepen with washing!