Last night I finished weaving the last bit of white wool for dye stuff.

from my 12 meter warp I got three lengths, 1m, 4m and 6.3m. The last piece, that I finished last night, starts off with 3.5m tabby and the remaining 2.8 m is twill.

These measurements are all under tension in the loom, I've not yet measured them up off the loom.

Tomorrow we are heading ott to my apprentice, Cristina Stolte, to dye these pieces of cloth. I already handed over the grey wool cloth I wove to her. I brought it with me for the event Cow Hunt, so she could mordant that in advance of our dyeing weekend - maybe save some time on the day. 

Due to having to cut down and re-tension twice, I had exactly the right amount of yarn for this whole project as well. I put the last bobbin in my shuttle, was able to advance my warp once more, and when the last pick of weft went in, I could basically not get another good shed. 

I am usually pretty good about leaving very short thrumms, and this was no different. The difference was, I have not even one extra bobbin of thread left over, the thrums are minimal, everything is used up in the fabric I produced, which is amazing.

I love being efficient with my resources, because it feels like I have gotten maximal use out of them. It also seems like a period appropriate way to use your resources. Everything that does not get used in an end product is many hours of wasted work.

Anyway - there's plenty of posts about this white cloth up on my instagram, up to and including rolling off the last piece from the cloth beam.