Center of Earthtone Towel Kit
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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Best of Both Worlds – Masters Towel Kit with Hemp
The best of both worlds. Mercerized Cotton Warp and Hemp weft! This kit makes 3 generous towels using 3 colors of 10/2 Tubular Spectrum™ mercerized 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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Simply Irresistible Scarf
You might as well face it, you’re addicted to scrunch! Double layers of 10/2 mercerized cotton yarn, a little elastic yarn and 4-shafts weave into a delightful textured, scrunchy scarf. Design by Katzy Luhring inspired by Denise Kovnat’s Deflected-Doubleweave scarf from her book: Weaving Outside the Box. Available in three colorways!
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10/2 & 20/2 Mercerized Cotton Yarn – Tubular Spectrum
Tubular Spectrum™ yarns are 100% mercerized cotton yarns, available in 45 vivid, intense and very color fast colors. The yarns will withstand years of washing and will keep your handwoven treasures looking bright and colorful! In order to view the colors on the cones and to purchase the yarns, please select the cone size and the weight of yarn from the drop down menus, and then the yarn color by clicking on the color swatches shown below.
This page has 10/2 and 20/2 weight yarns. If you would like to use 3/2 or 5/2 weight yarn, please click here.
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American Maid™ Naturally Colored Yarn
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
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
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
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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10 Color Petite Gamp Kit
This petite 10 color gamp kit contains ten of our Tubular Spectrum™ colors to weave color gamps! Choose whether you would like to weave using Tints, Brights or Tones. Available in 20/2, 10/2, 5/2, and 3/2 yarns.
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.
The 3/2 Kits come with instructions for rigid heddle and harness looms.
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Pretty in Pleats Vest Instructions
Experience the magic of Crimp Cloth. Pulled-thread Shibori and steam transform a multi colored, plain weave cloth into a plethora of pleats. And you can use this magic cloth to make a vest with minimal sewing and optimal comfort and fit. Designed by Dianne Totten from her amazing Crimp Cloth classes.
These are the instructions for the vest. If you would like to have the instructions and all the yarns to make the vest. Click here.
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Pretty in Pleats Vest Kit
Experience the magic of Crimp Cloth. Pulled-thread Shibori and steam transform a multi colored, plain weave cloth into a plethora of pleats. And you can use this magic cloth to make a vest with minimal sewing and optimal comfort and fit. Designed by Dianne Totten from her amazing Crimp Cloth classes.
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Over The Moon Towel Instructions
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 thirsty towels. Jean Jordan adapted a draft from Sharon Alderman’s book Mastering Weave Structures, page 136 when she designed these lovely towels. Instructions tell you how to make 3 towels. Would you like all the yarns to make these towels? 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 thirsty 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.
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A Rainbow On Your Doorstep Subscription
Do you look around your workspace and wish for colorful inspiration to get your creative juices flowing? Our subscription service, A Rainbow on Your Doorstep, is just what you need! Start any time and once a month 4 Fantastic colors of Tubular Spectrum Mercerized Cotton Yarn, specially selected to reflect the season, arrive at your doorstep. In November, you will receive 5 cones of yarn, and in December, you will get a set of Playing with Color Cards and two mystery cones instead of the 4 cones.
Guaranteed to inspire your creative endeavors and bring a smile to your face. Please let us know your favorite yarn size in the comment section. Scroll down for more information.
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Kaleidoscope Napkin Kit
These cheerful napkins are sure to brighten up any table! 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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Splash! Towel Kit
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
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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Bumberet Bitty Bits Napkin Instructions
Instructions to weave the Bumberet Bitty Bit Napkins. Play with 4 variations of the fascinating structure of Bumberet with our thirsty Lyte™ Bold hemp yarn and bitty bits of 10/2 Tubular Spectrum™ yarn for a splash of color! All with this including a quick, single shuttle weave! Weave 5 napkins (finished size 16.5” square) in 4 different treadlings or pick one treadling and make the napkins all the same. All on 4 shafts! Designed and woven by honorary Lunatic Paula Heller.
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