This scarf won an honorable mention in the accessories category at the 2010 Blue Ridge Fiber Show in North Carolina. The warp uses a 1:2 ratio and the weft is 1:1. The fine high-twist yarn shrank quite a lot when washed. All of the shrinkage is in the width (weft). Different textures are created by different sizes of yarn and having twice as many of the finer warp yarn.
This is an original draft, created in liftplan format which was advanced by 4 to make a longer, more interesting design.
Warp: grass-green Tencel, 30/2/4 (like 10/2 in size) and lilac 20/2 rayon and cotton, in a 1:2 ratio. One thicker green, two thin purple.
Weft: one pick raw silk, Henry's Attic soie naturelle petite, undyed, then one pick fine, high-twist Lyocell from Textura Trading Company. Both off-white and undyed.
Thank you for posting, congrats on your award! Deb
The colours and the textures and the structures.... all of it so very lovely! No wonder it was appreciated!
Just from the thumbnail image, I thought, "Hey! Someone is weaving something like Bonnie Inouye!" and when I clicked on the image, lo and behold it WAS you!
What you said at Complex Weavers Seminars really stuck with me, about preferring differential shrinkage fabric that does not result in such an open sett, so you have a more stable fabric. Once that throught was articulated, I realized I agreed, and that was probably one reason I wasn't as interested in the technique as others.
So glad you pursued this and are sharing your results!
Sally
