Towel Yardage Calculator

Weaving several towels on a single warp is far more efficient than warping separately for each, but it means the yardage math has to account for multiple repeats plus the cutting space between them. This calculator fixes draw-in at 8% (typical for cotton towels) to find the width to actually warp, then multiplies by EPI for total ends. For length, it takes each towel's finished length plus a hem allowance on both ends, then divides through by (1 − take-up%) and (1 − shrinkage%) to find how long each towel needs to be on the loom before interlacement and wet-finishing shrink it down. That per-towel loom length is multiplied by the number of towels, and a fixed 2-inch spacing is added between each towel (for fringe or hem-turning room when you cut them apart), plus loom waste at the ends, to get the total warp length to wind.

Warp yarn is ends times that total length; weft yarn multiplies total picks (weaving length times PPI) by the on-loom width plus the same 10% interlacement allowance used elsewhere in this calculator suite. As a bonus, it estimates the total yarn weight in ounces assuming 8/2 cotton at roughly 840 yards per pound — a reasonable ballpark for that yarn size, but wrong for anything thicker or thinner, so treat the weight figure as a shopping estimate rather than an exact order quantity. Because shrinkage and take-up defaults are cotton-typical, using this for wool or blended towels will understate finished shrinkage; always weave and wash a sample towel first to calibrate those percentages for your actual yarn before committing the full warp.