MAINE VILLAGE WEAVER

Excited to share this item from my #etsy shop: Red rust beige cotton wool table scarf square runner  fringed  https://etsy.me/36PB2er www.mainevillageweaver.etsy.com A beautiful setting for a Thanksgiving table can be made with my unique hand woven table squares and runners 

Phyllis Leck with her favorite customer Kathy Fuller showing off her custom woven tablecloth Phyllis Leck dba Village Weaver at the Walker Homestead Show What a perfect day in Sept at the Walker Homestead show! Sold out of my newest work ! Hand dyed yarn woven into scarves and shawls. Go to my web site www.mainevillageweaver.com  to see and purchase a scarf. I use golden rod for a yellow gold color, knotweed for a grey green color and black walnut for a light brown.  As a shawl it can also be a curtain in a pantry or "buttery" . Customer modeling my Grey green color shawl 

Red and Beige Wool and Cotton 6x8 rug Beige and Red stripe rag rug Med Windowpane Check Navy Spring is almost here!  Look and see what I have been doing! A large 6 ft x 8 ft stripe rug in wool . That was a challenge and I did it! The stripe rag rug was warp left over from the Red Wool rug . I love playing around with color and how they effect each other. The last picture is of a windowpane check that is not small but not as large as my large windowpane check so I gave it the distinction of "medium" Ha , It may be "Tavern Check" in somebodies pattern book but that is just made up anyway. Looks very nautical to me and when woven with linen thread  it has an old feeling alright! All this is headed down to PA next week to the Historic Home Show and Designer Craftsmen .  Cheers everyone it is back to the finishing room (sewing)where I put it all together.!

Rust color thread with a sand tan thread in a small windowpane check . I don't seem to have a photo on hand . I will have to photograph it while on the loom. I am weaving it 50 inches wide and the finished width will be around 45-46 inches wide. Yep ! you loose that much in the weaving take up an then when I wash it to set the fabric it shrinks some more. I will probably put on 10 yards of cotton thread sett at 18 ends to the inch . Let's see 18 ends times 50 inches is 900 threads to handle . Just a short warp. I am waiting to hear from an interior decorator if I am going to be weaving two mohair throws for a yacht in the Caribbean. I don't want to have a lengthly warp on the loom holding up the flow. I enjoy color and watching the fabric grow with each throw of the shuttle. There is a rhythm that happens . A peaceful rocking back and forth with repeated motion. It is so apart of my daily activity for hours I spend working at the loom.  I have two big warps to weave after...

This design, Indigo and Stoneware in a small check is being woven now. If you would like an item made from this fabric , please let me know , by the time I am done weaving this will be all spoken for . This is an All cotton fabric that has many shades of navy and many shades of beige and browns. Works well as a table runner , towel , table cloth or throw.

Sold, sorry there is no more available at this time Primitive Shops, Here are the next two styles of fabric I have created this month. The background is as dark as I can create it with the materials I have. The navy blue is a rich blue with lots of slub and textured to resemble old handspun bulky spinning of yarn. The tablecloth shown is a standard size that is 45" by 45" plus fringe on four sides. Also great as a table runner 12x36 or 18x 36 The name indigo and stoneware? I came up with this design fabric to reflect the look of Salt Glazed Stoneware with the flow blue pattern. Remember Salt Glaze? Hard to find now with all the regulations.

Simple windowpane check woven in beautiful pumpkin colors. This will be my next fabric to create when I get done with the indigo and stoneware I am working on right now. I am always dreaming of what is going to be next and that is what spurs me on.