DragonTale Purple Painted Warp Scarves (2013)
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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″.
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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. |
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All together, washed and dried. |
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First scarf — plainweave, black weft |
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Second scarf — twill pattern, black weft |
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Thirs scarf — twill pattern, purple weft |
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Final piece (table centrepiece) — twill pattern, pink weft |
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