I’ve written about this before in 2015. The blog post is titled Turned Taquete Variation [or] The Weave That Keeps on Giving. I had been weaving a lot of straight draw Turned Taqueté towels when I had a light bulb moment, realizing that this same draft could be woven as 2/2/ twill, just by changing the tie-up. Here is the towel warp I was weaving back then. I only wove the one warp, and soon moved on to other projects.

Fast forward to now, and I was weaving more straight draw Turned Taqueté with my Rhythm and Blues patterns (now on Etsy). Having finished that warp, I then thought to just tie on a new warp with some brighter colors, perhaps using up some stash, and weave them off in Twill.

Voilà.

It works very well, thank you. Although, at 24 epi, I think the 8/2 cotton might be a tad bit loosely sett. I wove four towels, with a different color weft for each. After washing, they have a nice lightweight hand.

For those who have purchased the Rhythm and Blues patterns, the drawdown will look somewhat familiar. The threading is the same, just different colors. The tie-up is a 2/2 twill on 8 shafts, and the treadling is whatever you make up as you go along.