i wanted to (attempt to!) make a gauzey "woodsy" scarf for me to wear over hair this spring/summer...
tried to make each of the little panels of color true to themselves (the "water" & "trees" panels don't "share" any colors) but i went out of my way to try & make them random & not copying any of the other water/tree panels in order of colors or even sett... i'm such an OCD hyper-organizer this was a BIG lesson for me haha ;)
plan/hope to cut length of fabric in half when i'm done and seam them together up middle... we'll see how it goes :)
edit: have cut fabric from the loom, have changed my mind about cutting it and sewing to make more of a square-fabric, i am really digging the length... still need to finish the warp ends, & had planned to only use that gold-yellow band of soumak stitches to "hold" warp for me at beginning of weaving but its grown on me actually (isn't that odd??), this time i'm keeping the band there...
I really like the way you showed the colour thinking with your bits of string.
thank you, Ruth <3
Definitely keep the yellow band. It's a lovely fleck of color!
that's really lovely - the soumac band (am I reading that right) is that woven in or did you add it separately - the pattern looks different from a plain weave.
thank you, Ingamarie ♥ :)
yes, i kept the band there, i'm very happy with it :)
thank you, Thumper :)
yes, i wove the soumak first (you can see the pic where there is no weft yet, only that first gold-band).... soumak is not a tabby/plain weave, its done by wrapping weft around the warp-threads in certain ways (depending on what you want it to look like)... its done with no shed-changes.. i use it with most my weaves to pull warp-threads into alignment for me, but don't always keep the soumak there when i'm finished...
the soumak i used this time was simple form of alternating rows of open & closed oriental weaves, 2/1 (2 forward, one back) with each wrap, & it makes a band of slight "chevron" looking stitches that are very dense.....
if one googles the net, you can find better descriptions/explinations of weaving with soumak (better than i could ever do job of here) & if someone is interested in studying more about it, i recomend Jean Wilson's "Soumak Workbook", its very small/thin book but THE BEST i ever found to describe these techniques...
Thanks very much I'll look into that more (something else to play with - grin).
