I sewed the warp onto the apron rod and began to weave the face cloths.
I decided to hemstitch the ends of each piece and to leave about 2cm between the pieces as a short fringe.
The face cloths were woven in either the “Earthquake” or TAW pattern. The weft was a variety of colours of either 10/2 mercerised cotton or No8 perle cotton embroidery thread.
While weaving face cloth #6, I thought that treadle 3 was harder to push than the other treadles. I checked the tie-up and found that the texsolv cord for shaft 8 had become attached to it, so treadle 3 was pulling down 5 shafts instead of 4. I corrected this after finishing face cloth #6.
After weaving the 24 cloths, I measured the completed fabric – it was about 6m, which is what I had allowed. I cut the fabric from the loom (it measured 6.02m), cut the pieces apart, washed them in warm water on a normal machine wash cycle, trimmed the loose ends and fringes, pressed them with a hot iron and hung them to dry.
The cloths are wonderful! There is a mixture of solid colours, stripes, vibrant colours and more subdued colours. The texture and softness is perfect. Each cloth measures approximately 22cm long (between fringes) and 27.5cm wide (selvedge to selvedge).
The following table shows the colours used for each cloth – each colour is a single repetition of the pattern. The “Earthquake” pattern (EQ) cloths have 4 pattern repetitions (each measures about 6cm), the TAW pattern cloths have 3 pattern repetitions (each measures about 8cm). “10/2” is 10/2 mercerised cotton, numbers in brackets refer to the colour shade of No8 perle cotton embroidery thread.
| Cloth no. | Pattern | Colours |
| 1 | EQ | 10/2 red, orange, yellow & dark green |
| 2 | EQ | 10/2 light green, light blue, dark blue & dark green |
| 3 | EQ | light purple (208), 10/2 purple, pink & red |
| 4 | EQ | 10/2 yellow, red (666), dark blue (995) & purple (550) |
| 5 | EQ | light blue (996), dark blue (995), 10/2 dark green & light green |
| 6 | EQ | green (701) & teal (EZ09) (2 pattern repetitions of each) |
| 7 | EQ | light blue (EZ10), variegated blue (EZM20) (2 pattern repetitions) & EZ10 |
| 8 | EQ | dark blue (EZ13), variegated blue (EZM98) (2 pattern repetitions) & EZ13 |
| 9 | EQ | 10/2 yellow, dark green (2 pattern repetitions) & yellow |
| 10 | EQ | 10/2 dark blue, light blue (2 pattern repetitions) & dark blue |
| 11 | TAW | 10/2 pink, red & pink |
| 12 | TAW | dark blue (995), light blue (996) & 995 |
| 13 | TAW | pink (602), 10/2 pink & 602 |
| 14 | TAW | 10/2 dark blue, light blue & dark blue |
| 15 | TAW | light purple (208), dark purple (550) & 208 |
| 16 | TAW | light green (907), mid green (906) & dark green (699) |
| 17 | TAW | yellow/orange (972), orange (947) & red/orange (606) |
| 18 | TAW | 10/2 light blue |
| 19 | TAW | 10/2 dark green |
| 20 | TAW | 10/2 dark blue |
| 21 | TAW | 10/2 red, pink & purple |
| 22 | EQ | 10/2 dark blue |
| 23 | EQ | 10/2 dark green |
| 24 | TAW | 10/2 yellow |
