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I am a beginner - fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants weaver. Self taught and no illusions about my lack of technical skills. But I love to play and I love to weave. The Habu Stainless steel is the most amazing tool to weave with. How can it be stainless steel? Wrapped with silk it has the ability to be scrunched and bent into shape whilst still be soft and lovely to touch.
This was a lovely project - I warped up with the white stainless steel and then used a Habu Sampler ball from Dairing. The sampler had a whole bunch of different 'yarns' wound up - some sosenshi paper, tobe moire, all sorts of unusual things.
I wanted to play around with the yarns. I purposely created sections that had larger gaps, undulating sections of not much, just stainless steel.
Wonderful when dunked in hot water, 'thwacked' and then popped it in the dryer for 10 mins.
I wear it so much and always get asked about it.
Habu merino 2/48 a-33
Percentage: 100
Habu linen 80/1 n-6
Percentage: 100
Excellent light gray natural. Habu recommends this as weft only. It is an amazing yarn. I have used it in multiple projects.
Magical Materials Scarf
This is inpired by Lotte Dalgaards book, a scarf on page 44. The sett is actually 12 epcm for the wool crepe and 8 epcm for the linen.
The copper is really delicate. I used it in both the warp and weft. In the warp I'd recommend doubling the threads and treating them as one. I also used a monofilament as a floating selvedge to protect the copper edge. And be really, really careful.
Organzine scarf
Current picture is the sample. Plainweave fulled gauze. 2-ply linen used in handwoven shibori style - removed after fulling.
Seaweed collapse scarf
Overtwist wool warp with spaced denting. Larger linen weft outlines the cells and used for half-hitches and Spanish medallion.
Silk & SIlk
This scarf is woven using two very different silks. One is a spun silk, very smooth and light - the other a tsumugi silk which is rough and stiffer. I tied this warp onto the warp for the Polly scarf. So it is the same threading with a slight treadling variation. This scarf and all the deflected double weave scarves I have woven were inspired by the article in Handwoven (Jan/Feb 2007) by Madelyn van der Hooght on deflected double weave.
