Overtwist wool warp with spaced denting. Larger linen weft outlines the cells and used for half-hitches and Spanish medallion.
Your scarf is a lovely delight, so original, and the colors so natural. Am wondering if it is as soft as it looks.
This piece is extremely inspirational!
What kind of take-up and shrinkage rates did you experience?
Take-up being the amount lost (as a percentage) when you took it off the loom.
Shrinkage being the amount you lost (as a percentage) when you washed it.
With linen it shouldn't be much, but with the overtwist, that puts a new wrinkle (pun intended!) into these kind of calculations.
Thanks so much. It is soft and with plenty of give, but it does have a little firmness due to the 16/1 linen. I think it would draw in too much without it.
Thank you. I'm really happy about this piece and hoped to enter it in Convergence, but I didn't pay enough attention to the sample requirements. A learning experience...
Takeup in weft was extreme, due to the half-hitches - 26% from in the reed to off-loom. Warp takeup was 1%.
There was an additional shrinkage of 10% weftwise and 17% warpwise.
