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Fri, 02/12/2010 - 13:17

Raveled (not verified)

Your scarf is a lovely delight, so original, and the colors so natural.  Am wondering if it is as soft as it looks.

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 18:59

sally orgren

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.

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 19:05

dteaj (not verified)

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.

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 19:53

dteaj (not verified)

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.

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 16:19

knitfinder

How lovely! What is the main weft yarn? If I understand correctly the warp is the overtwist wool, the green accent weft is linen, but I couldn't tell what the other weft yarn was.

Thank you-

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Overtwist wool warp with spaced denting. Larger linen weft outlines the cells and used for half-hitches and Spanish medallion.

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