In a Weaving Today Q & A, a weaver asked about using fishing line for neat selvedges. What thickness fishing line is best?
I’m trying to work on my selvedges. I’ve heard that you can get better, stronger selvedges by setting the warp threads denser at the selvedge edges.
I have a question about cotton shrinking. When I use handwoven kitchen towels, usually 8/2 cotton, they seem to keep shrinking every time they are washed.
Yarn counts cause great confusion even when they are used consistently—and in the case of weaving, they are not.
The overall goal in sleying a reed with more than one end in a dent to achieve a particular sett is to make the sleying order as even overall as possible.
Is there an easy way to convert metric reeds in order to follow project instructions that give the setts in the number of ends per inch?
When is it too late to start using a temple? Madelyn explains to a reader how to salvage her much-too-drawn-in selvedges!
In essence, you are asking whether weavers really need to use a temple.
The closer denting of the edge threads is probably suggested in order to add a bit of strength to the selvedges.
Isn't mercerized cotton as absorbent of water when using it to dry dinnerware? I'd like to make these towels using mercerized cotton if possible.
