sett for Cotton Boucle

[Syl]

Hello Jane,

I’m finally getting ready to weave the cotton bouclé tea towel from the kit i ordered months ago.

The instructions say to set the EPI and PPI at 12 – i’ll weave plainweave. It seems quite wide. I checked your Master Sett chart which confirmed that for bouclé warp and weft the EPI and PPI are 12.  I don’t like drying dishes when towels have an opened weave. If i changed the EPI to 14 would it make the cloth too stiff to be useful?

Finally, i would like to do 3 towels with the cotton boucle for warp and weft and 3 towels with bouclé warp and 2/8 cotton weft. Will EP and PPI at 12 still give me a good result

I only have a 10 dent reed so i’ll sley 1,2,2,2. Maybe that too will affect the feel.

Thank you.

[Cheryl]

I can hear my dear friend who passed last May, ” Sample, sample, sample.”

 

[Ginette]

Hi Sylvie, the sett for boucle cotton does work really well at 12 EPI/PPI for plain weave.  After the wash, they will shrink and will be perfect.   At 14 epi, it would make them a bit denser and may not be as absorbent. With your 10 dent reed, you can sley it 1,1,1,2 that’s for 12.5 epi so it’s close enough and won’t affect the outcome.

As for using 2/8 cotton along with the boucle, I wove a whole bunch of them in a 2/2 twill using the 2/8 as warp and boucle as weft sett at 16 epi for twill as Jane recommends in her Master Sett Chart.  They are wonderful and I was really pleased with the outcome.

Here’s a picture of some at 16 epi/ppi twill

[Syl]

Hello Ginette, thank you so much for your response. It is very useful and now i feel more confident getting the warp ready. Your towels look very nice. Your color combo works really well. It’s inspiring.

As for sampling, Cheryl, I agree. I will sample -once the warp is on the loom.

[dchiarucci]

Hi, I am beginning the cotton boucle tea towel extravaganza kit with an EPI of 12 and weaving width 22″, straight draw on 4 shafts, plain weave.  This makes 264 ends, yet your instructions state 262.   No need for a FS though that would make it 266 ends. Can you explain the discrepancy? Thanks so much.

[my.poiema]

Hi, I am wondering if anyone has used  the boucle for the warp and 8/2  cotton for the weft? Is there any reason why this would not work?

[dchiarucci]

Hi, I have only used boucle for both warp and weft in a towel.  But it does have a sticky factor and I would think it would be easier to use the 8/2 for warp and the boucle for weft.

[my.poiema]

Thank you. That is a very good point and I had not thought of that.

 

[Janny]

I wound my warp as instructed I put the lease sticks through the loop and put the threads onto the raddle. But my warp is hanging over the back of the loom should I have thrown the chain over the front then put the loops in the stick on the back beam. I cannot see how I got it wrong. Ah think I have to face it the other way. I’ll try by putting the lease sticks into the cross take it off the raddle and turn it. Oh dear me silly, I have never used the raddle on my countermarche loom it allways seemed too high for me so Ive lashed it onto the castle lower in line with the heddles .Have usually cut the yarn and threaded from the front stuggling with a uneven tension on the front.  So here goes only gotta get better.

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