DragonTale Purple Painted Warp Scarves (2013)

Pattern: 1 Plain Weave, 2 Twill scarves and an end piece

Yarns: Warp: Dragon Tale 5/2 Rayon and Rayon Slub painted warp; Weft: 5/2 Dragon Tale Rayon (various colours).

Method: Weaving, Schacht Baby Wolf 8S10T
Completed: December 30, 2013.

I got the warp as a kit from EarthGuild -- DragonTale 5/2 rayon and rayon slub, painted "in the warp". 144 ends, warped at 15epi. The kit came with a cone of black 5/2 black rayon, which would have been enough to do 3 scarves in plainweave. But, I opted to play around :-)

The kit says that you can weave three 78" scarves. I wasn't sure how wasteful I'd been in getting it on the loom, so I opted to weave the scarves to 75" (on loom), and then had enough left to play with a 4th piece. I'm choosing to think of it as a table centrepiece. The scarves have 5" twisted fringes, and the centrepiece has a sewn edge and free (trimmed) fringe.

So -- on loom, the scarves were 9 2/3" (144 ends/15 epi) and woven to 75". They came off the loom at approximately 8 1/2" x 73", and finished around 7 1/2" x 69".

	Left picture -- weaving with thick waste yarn to check the twill patterning (caught and fixed a threading error! Had to use an emergency heddle). Right picture -- playing with pink and purple weft options prior to starting 3rd scarf.
	All together, washed and dried.
	First scarf -- plainweave, black weft
	Second scarf -- twill pattern, black weft
	Thirs scarf -- twill pattern, purple weft
	Final piece (table centrepiece) -- twill pattern, pink weft

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