It looked to be in decent shape, for threads of an undetermined age. It's two colours, rust and beige. I find that combo rather uninspiring and a bit dull. However, I found some khaki and turquoise in my stash that add a bit of interest to the original colours. With those, I figured I could do something useful with the warp.
There was only a cross at one end, but the choke ties were done in slip knots, so I slipped my fingers in between the one part of the cross, thinking that half a cross was better than no cross. I walked backward, and undid each choke tie as I got to it, separated the warp, retied the choke tie and moved on to the next one. When I got to the turning point, I added a tie to denote the centre point, and moved back to the beginning. It wasn't perfect, but at least it's something.
This is the folded area. I put extra choke ties in to try to help the threads from not getting tangled up and more difficult to deal with than necessary. Luckily it's a simple colour arrangement, looking like a smaller rust strip beside the beige.
At this point, I reached in my back pocket, took out the scissors and snipped the warp in half. There was no way I was going to weave off 12 yards of anything 6 inches wide. Now I have almost a foot wide and I only need to wind off another 4-8 inches of threads to make the warp wide enough for something useful, like napkins or tea towels.
As well, it's only 6 yards long, which is a less daunting size to deal with. I'm thinking a tabby weave. While I prefer twills, I'm not sure I want to risk that much more thread on this. While I snapped the threads in a few places to test for strength and it seemed fine, there is still the risk that the cotton has weak spots, which would make for some miserable weaving.
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