Some Ideas for the Next Towel Warp

I've been working out some border designs for the pink towel series. The body of the towel will be a 2/2 broken twill. Here are a few of the borders, starting with my interpretation of the pink ribbon shape:



Next, we have a sand dollar shell, hearts, butterflies (these should show up much better than the 20-end-wide version), and a fleur de lis:









There are a couple of websites that show traditional Japanese family crest designs, many of which are symmetrical, thus being suitable for a point threading. The first is a (simplified) ginko leaf design, then a flower called kikyo, and another flower that ends up looking more like a sort of pinwheel. (If you google "Japanese crest" you'll find several sites.)







Because of the point threading, the 1/3 and 3/1 broken twill have some anomalies at the points, which required a little creative twiddling to prevent overlong floats while still maintaining some resemblance to a broken twill.

Also, because the borders should appear in the same orientation to the hem on both ends of the towel, I will create upside-down versions that have a selvedge that continues nicely from the first border through the towel body and on into the second border.

All of them, by the way, were begun in Photoshop using Woven Pixel techniques. I drew (or imported) black and white designs, filled them with warp-faced (for the black areas) and weft-faced (for the white areas) broken twill, then imported into WeaveIt using the Fabric Analysis function under the Tools menu.