My “full case towel series” was inspired by Sue Anne Sullivan’s modification of Robin Spady’s beer bottle pattern, #72352 from Handweaving.net.
The few towels I wove on my first attempt were received with great favor and comment. A subsequent vintage in finer yarns wove well and produced other towels. There WILL be additional vintages!
Wilma Boyd

The Seattle Weavers Guild voted to have a booth at the 2023 ANWG Convention in Bend, Oregon. The booth committee decided to decorate the booth with towels woven using namedrafts of the members’ home cities.
This sample is based on a namedraft of “Carlsborg” and its reverse, “grobslrac.” The draft is for the rosepath version (diagonals). For more details, see notes on the drawdown.

Julia Ceffalo

I have been playing around with this weave structure since I first saw it in a book lentto me by my weaving teacher in the mid-1980s. I love the way setting doubleweave at a single weave EPI gives a lacy effect over the items inserted into the pockets. I first used it to weave the “scales” on a fish made for the Tacoma Weaver’s Guild booth at the Northwest Weaver’s Conference in Boise in 1989. The same year I wove a series of evening bags using larger pockets that I stuffed with pennies and dimes. More recently I wove sequin-stuffed pockets in the shape of Christmas trees to make cards.
Colleen McKinnon

Early in my weaving career I saw a photo of a 16-shaft pattern that looked like snakeskin. Off I went on a quest to find a “snakeskin” pattern for fewer shafts. I was quite delighted to find this one in an older copy of Handwoven, thought "go big or go home,” and proceeded to weave 8 yards for the ANWG 2023 conference Noh Coat entry.
Rebecca Cushman

This was a pretty simple overshot sequence with tabby picks between pattern picks. It’s fun to play with different treadling sequences to see what kind of patterns evolve. This sample was woven with the same tie-up as the referenced pattern, but I changed the treadling counts slightly, which is reflected in the drawdown.
Skye LaChute

Profile draft "Chintz" from Weaving Designs: Miniature Overshot Patterns by Bertha Gray Hayes, expressed in Summer and Winter. I imagined towels with an oversized design – only three pattern repeats gave me the width I needed! The towels were woven as drawn in (adapted for summer and winter treadling). I used a skeleton tie-up and quickly developed a rhythm.
Tenny Canning

The weave structure is a skip herringbone with alternating groups of 12 and 10 ends. The four-color plaid is mirrored widthwise but not lengthwise. The selvedges are very interesting—at first, I thought they had been machine-stitched and trimmed to make a soft edge, but on looking closer it appears they’re secured by a few ends of plain weave with a gap between—something to try with the rest of this warp.
Carol Buchmiller

From Towelpalooza class by Janet Dawson and Sue Willingham, January 2020. Pinwheels is an 8-shaft twill with color and weave effects created by 8-end warp and weft stripes in charcoal, natural, and red.
Carol Buchmiller

T-shirt rags make durable rugs from shirts that are too shabby to go on as clothing. My first t-shirt rug, woven more than 15 years ago, is still in the bathmat rotation for my family of four. T-shirt rags also weave up quickly. Even with an energetic, weighted beat, the doubled rags fill an inch every four or five picks.
Erica Tiedemann

A four shaft overshot pattern can be converted to double weave using 4 shafts, but using 8 shafts makes the threading easier. The threading can be repeated on shafts 5 through 8 in parallel as shown on the draft; shafts 1-4 for the top layer and 5-8 for the bottom layer. The treadling is paralleled as well with the left four tie-ups weaving the top layer and the right four tie-ups weaving the bottom layer.
Vashon Weavers