I decided to make a table runner for a wedding gift, but the bride is all about black/white/gray, and rep weave is usually all about blocks of color. There weren’t enough variations of gray available online to simply swap color for gray.

Using the pattern, “My Father’s Daughter: Rug to Runners” from Handwoven Sept/Oct 2019, I wound the warp as a “fade” using white and 3 shades of gray for the pattern colors and black and white for the background, all Marion’s suggestion.

I’m super pleased with the results — the runner is totally reversible. I even hemmed the ends in opposite directions, so there is truly no right/wrong side.