Crafted by hand,
Another group of Baby Blankets
100% Natural Cotton Baby Blankets. Hand Tied Knotted Fringe.
Baby Blankets
Time for some Natural Dyeing
I have a new source for Black Walnuts, right here in Central Texas. I will be fermenting the outer husks for my dyeing liqueur. They should be a little greener, but I will have to wait till September – October of next year.
Texture
White on White. Purifying Cotton
A lot of people don’t realized that pure natural cotton is not white. It becomes stained with plant mats. and oils from the seeds when being ginned. Companies use industrial means to whiten the cotton. I want to know where my fiber and yarn comes from, and if it is eco-friendly.
Using only natural ingredients and old fashion ways, I am starting to lighten my own fibers and yarn when needed. In the pictures, (hard to tell in the pictures) the weaving has a natural cotton warp and and whiten weft. Just a shade different to show the draft more.
Khadi Cotton
In India, Khadi refers to handwoven and hand spun cloth.
Mahatma Gandhi collected large sums of money to create a grass-roots organization to encourage handloom weaving. This was called Khadi cloth – a natural fiber that is hand spun and hand woven. A craft that Mahatma Gandhi rekindled over one hundred years ago in India.
This is my first attempt at weaving “Khadi” cloth, using imported hand spun Kala Cotton from India.
Organic – Earthy
Texas Khadi
Dressing my three looms with new warps.
Picture 1 will become a blanket
3/2 natural cotton, 56.75″/680 threads
Approx 4′ x 8′ finished.
Picture 2 will become crib blankets
8/2 natural cotton, 36″/864 threads
Approx 30″ x 30″ finished
Picture 3 is a test weave
Kala cotton, 2″/96 threads
Old World Cotton and Friendship.
Just this morning we received our first shipment of Hand Spun Kala Cotton.
The name โkalaโ means cotton pod โ the core of the cotton.
Greek historian from as early as 400 BC, โ In India, there were trees
growing wild, which produce a kind of wool better than sheepโs wool in
beauty and quality. The Indians use this tree wool to make their
clothes.โ. In fact, when Alexander invaded India, his soldiers took to
wearing cotton clothes when they saw the Indian women spinning cotton fabric extracted out of cotton ginning. Even the Mauryan scriptures mention yarn spun out of wool, bark-fibers, cotton, hemp and flax and how artisans made livelihood out of them.
Kala Cotton is a type of Old World cotton, which archaeological evidence shows has been grown in parts of India and Pakistan for thousands of years. Kala Cotton is purely rain fed due its deep root system it doesnโt require vast amounts of water to grow. Kala Cotton is of the type G. Herbaceum, which has not been hybridized, and is therefore genetically pure variety of cotton. It grows organically, without the need for synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.
From a newly develop friendship, this first shipment of Hand Spun Kala Cotton is from a 500 year old village in the Kutch region of India. A village of artisan known for their spinning, weaving and dyeing. As 2021 starts to develop, we will also be offering custom commissioned weaving from our friends.
Texas Khadi
Born in India – Raised in Texas.
Hand Spun Kala Cotton from India
Floor Loom Woven in Texas
Loom Woven Baby Blankets
Crafted by hand,
My blankets are special because of the stories they collect over time.
Objects that traveled down the branches of our family tree.
My blankets represent a beloved person or memory.
They add warmth and personality to a home.
Wrapping us up in warm memories.
100% Natural Cotton Baby Blankets. Hand Tied Knotted Fringe.
Baby Crib / Receiving Blankets
Finishing up hand tying the ends. Getting ready for the newbornโs and market.
There will be a total of 12 with this draft, 3 each.
Colors being White, Yellow, Blue and Pink. All Natural Cotton.
For every three security blankets woven, one is removed to gifted to a children hospital. With the receiving / crib blankets, for every four one is gifted.
Tzedakah, Dฤna, Gifting
Llano Fiber
A Look at my Weaving Studio
I have three wooden looms. Not shown in the picture on the other side, my finishing table. The table size is 42โ x 102โ. I am making space for a sewing machine for future garments.
Llano Fiber 
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