Latte Weave

Culture & Context

I have been working as a part time barista for the past 18 months while also pursuing
my textiles career. In this time, I have fallen in love with the process of making coffee
however there is a huge amount of waste that comes with it. Through this project I
wanted to see how many ways I could utilise waste from the coffee industry and turn it
into a new/ experimental material or process.
This sample is inspired by the drink – a latte. Looking at the brown base of the milky
coffee I used a plain weave and then for the frothy top I used the plain cream wool and
a double weave structure to add thickness and weight just like the froth.

Process & Production

The process of this material was firstly setting up the loom. When that was complete I
started weaving. The first 5” of the sample was a plain weave across both cloths using
a darker brown merino wool yarn sourced from Bart and Francis (this yarn was
naturally dyed by this company). The next 2” were woven using a double cloth
structure and the plain cream 1ply Galway wool yarn. When the sample was taken off
the loom it was stitched at the top and bottom to secure it and avoid any yarns from
unravelling.

Recipe Details

Loom Set Up :
Double Cloth set up using 16 shafts on a 24 shaft shaft ARM Touch 60 Loom.
Warp 1 & 2 : Galway Wool 1ply – length 4 yards, one dyed with waste coffee grounds
the other was left plain.
Weight : 232g for both.
24epi, 336 ends in total
Width : 14”
Straight draft in blocks AABAABAABAABAA

Material Sample :
5” plain weave using a naturally dyed brown merino wool yarn from Bart and Francis.
2” of double cloth using plain cream 1ply Galway wool.