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I was recently inspired to buy some of your 8/8 cotton (on sale!) to make the placemats mentioned in the description (“Using Twill, sett at 12 epi and 12 ppi with 8/2 cotton as your warp and 8/8 cotton as your weft, you can weave practical, beautiful placemats that will be fun to create in this full rainbow of colours.”)
My question is this: in the description, copied above, it’s recommended to use 8/2 cotton for the warp, but in Jane’s Master Sett Chart, it’s recommended to use 8/4 cotton. I have both and am wondering which I should use? I assume the 8/4 will give me a firmer placemat? Will I even see the warp yarns given that the 8/8 cotton is so much heavier?
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What I would do would probably use the 8/4 cotton as your warp, and use your 8/8 as your weft. You will have a weft predominant cloth, but you will see your weft. You will have nice firm placemats and I’ll bet they will be fun to weave 😉 Your placemats will firm up after they have been washed and dried in the dryer. I would ask Jane, but she is away from the studio on a well-deserved break. If you are not planning to wind your warp for a week or so, I can double-check with Jane when she gets back. Let me know.
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Thanks. I have more colors in 8/2 cotton but I agree, I think I’ll try the 8/4 first. It would be good though to have the sett chart and the products page to be consistent. Thanks for your quick reply! I am so glad I found Jane Stafford Textiles – what a wealth of knowledge and experience!
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The sett depends of what you want to weave and the hand you want it to have for that particular purpose. As Jane so often says – “not right, not wrong – just different” as well as “sample, sample, sample”! You could double up in winding the warp, but I would thread them and weave them side by side, like you would in Basket Weave. I would want to control each thread while weaving. That way you could even mix your colours of 8/2 if you wanted to 😉
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