Another EZ Dye project. I wove 4 scarves and a sample. I cut the sample up into strips to do some dye tests, to help me decide what colors to dye the scarves. I'm still dyeing samples--I cut the warp off today and will finish by the end of the week. The hard part is deciding what colors to dye them.
The dyed sample shown has the white rayon as the weft and was first dipped in Procion fuchsia, which only dyed the EZ Dye cotton. The I dipped haf of it in Cushing's direct Blue, which overdyed the fuchsia to give purple and tinted the white to give light blue. So with 2 colors in the warp and 2 dyes, there are 5 colos shown: white, black, fuchsia, blue, and purple.
Oh, the weave structure... I like the 1/3 vs. 3/1 twill for these ridged "hill & valley"scarves, but wanted something different than the usual. So I found this broken twill #2 in Davison and put it into blocks. Well, the threading is only 8 threads, so I mapped it to a straight draw for my 16 shaft loom.