Serious Scarves

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Serious Scarves
Project
Project Status: 
Finished
Yarn
Yarn: silk
Color: red, purple, blue, green, orange
Type: warp
Yarn: silk
Color: red, orange, blue, green
Type: weft
Loom
Number of Shafts: 
16
Sett: 
20.00 EPI
Notes: 

These scarves were inspired by a colour workshop at Convergence, where James Koehler introduced us to Goethe's colour triangle. Each scarf is a variation on the colour scheme Goethe described as "serious". I chose huck lace for reasons of economy - the silk was expensive and I wanted a wide sett! Having chosen the huck I then designed each pattern to use a shape corresponding to the dominant colour. I wove between 72 and 78" on the loom for each scarf, depending on what repeat gave me a pleasing result. If you are interested, there are several posts on my blog documenting this project: just click on the tag Goethe to find them. This was a lot of fun -- it suits me much more to explore colour theories by making things than by reading about them!

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Karren K. Brito's picture
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Joined: 11/13/2009
Very nice; good color and

Very nice; good color and interesting structure.

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Joined: 05/13/2009
These are beautiful and I

These are beautiful and I love the structures you used!