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Blue Horizons Tunic | Project PDF + WIF

Project Type Garments
Loom Type Multi-Shaft Floor or Table
Number of Shafts 4
Number of Treadles 6
Weave Structures Summer and Winter
Magazine Issue Handwoven Summer 2025
Author Cynthia Newman and Katzy Luhring
Format WIF

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About this Project

This tunic from the Summer 2025 issue is woven using hemp in a turned summer and winter draft that is weavable with a single shuttle.

Contents

  • Blue Horizon Tunic Instructions PDF
  • Tunic WIF

Details

Structure
Turned summer and winter.

Equipment
4-shaft loom, 20" weaving width; 12- or 8-dent reed; 1 shuttle; 4 bobbins.

Yarns
Warp: Bold Lyte Hemp (100% hemp; 2,600 yd/lb; Lunatic Fringe Yarns), Cobalt, 1,323 yd; Sapphire, 448 yd; Dark Gray, 392 yd. Fine Lyte Hemp (100% hemp; 5,000 yd/lb; Lunatic Fringe Yarns), Cobalt, 343 yd; Sapphire, 931 yd; Black, 882 yd.

Weft: Fine Lyte Hemp, Cobalt, 1,000 yd; Sapphire, 852 yd; Dark Gray, 80 yd; Eggplant, 642 yd.

Dimensions
Width in the reed: 19 5⁄12" or 19 3⁄8".
Woven length: (measured under tension on the loom) 197"
Finished size: (after wet-finishing and sewing) 47" chest circumference; 32"–36" shoulder to hem.

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