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Winning Towels Weaving Collection Reprint, 18 patterns!

Towels Ebook

Handwoven’s Winning Towels Collection includes eighteen extraordinary towels. Towels are a great template for experimenting with different yarns and new techniques. Plus you can achieve a range of different color effects from a single warp. You’ll never get bored or run out of uses for wonderful handwoven towels.

A few of our favorite Winning Towels projects using Pearl Cotton yarns…

Colors by Mozart, waffle weave towels by Tomoe Edwards.

Fabulously complex colors made simple in a 4-shaft waffle weave. Tomoe Edwards matches colors to musical notes to create a colorful woven “score.” These melodic beauties are based on the first movement of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. Whether you’re a music fan or just love the depth of colors, the project is an education in where to find inspiration. Try these as written, or pick your own favorite piece from which to create a custom colorway with musical origins!

Makes two hemmed towels, 15.75″ by 18.5″ each.

10/2 Pearl Cotton Yarn

 

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Yardage Chart

  • 4-shaft loom, weaving width of at least 19″
  • 15-dent reed
  • 5 shuttles

 

Cayenne Pepper Towels, by Nancy J. Warren.

A wonderful color-and-weave variation in log cabin (a plain weave structure). The split-complementary colors really pop in 10/2 Pearl Cotton Yarn. Makes two hemmed towels, 20″ by 27″ each.

 

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Cayenne Chart

  • 4-shaft loom, weaving width of at least 22″
  • 12-dent reed
  • 2 shuttles, 6 bobbins

 

Color-And-Weave Pinwheels, by Susan Mansfield.

Pinwheels are a great 8-shaft project and the delicate swirls are a fun way to play with color. Keep these subtle blues with a yellow accent, or choose your own colors and experiment. Makes two hemmed towels, 16.25″ by 28.5″ each.

10/2 Pearl Cotton Yarn

 

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  • 4-shaft loom, weaving width of at least 22″
  • 12-dent reed
  • 2 shuttles, 6 bobbins

 

There’s fifteen more award winning towels to try in this great Handwoven Collection Reprint, available in print only from Halcyon Yarn.

 

Winning Towels: Handwoven's 21st - Century Towel Contest - Handwoven eBook Reprint  Winning Towels: Handwoven's 21st - Century Towel Contest - Handwoven eBook Reprint

 

Looking for even more weaving inspiration to in Pearl Cotton? Try the new Lovely Day Rep Weave project featuring 5/2 Pearl Cotton Yarn (Also available as kits!)

 

5/2 Pearl Cotton Yarn 5/2 Pearl Cotton Yarn

As always, if you’d like help planning your weaving projects, give us a call or email – we’re glad to help!

Pearl Cotton Cones

Pearl Cotton Mini-Cones 

 

Winning Towels: Handwoven's 21st - Century Towel Contest - Handwoven eBook Reprint  Winning Towels: Handwoven's 21st - Century Towel Contest - Handwoven eBook Reprint

 

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