Completed: February 2016
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| The raw material |
I wove this scarf in a straightforward plain weave on my rigid heddle loom. I didn't think it was worth trying to do anything fancy with the weave because I thought the bouclé structure of the yarn would probably obliterate any pattern I attempted. And, more importantly, the yarn was so beautiful I really wanted it to be the focus here, not the weave.
The warp and weft are both done in the same yarn: a hand-dyed grass-green bouclé mohair yarn called "Luigi's Locks" from Yellow Dog Farm, which I bought at the Vermont Sheep and Woolcraft Fair last summer. The yarn has little streaks of darker green and lighter yellow-green throughout.
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| A sample I wove on a piece of cardboard to see if the 7.5 epi gauge would look all right |
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| Luigi's Locks on the loom |
When I measured its gauge, it looked like Luigi's Locks was roughly a worsted weight I used a 7.5 dent reed and tried to keep to roughly 7.5 ppi so that it could be a pretty loose, open weave; I did this both so the fabric wouldn't be so stiff, and also so there would be plenty of room for the little bouclé loops to poke out in all directions. I warped the loom with 62 ends of 8.5 yards each.
The scarf was about 8.25" wide on the loom, and about 8" off the loom. I wove the scarf out to about 74" long, which only ended up shrinking a tiny bit to about 72" long off the loom; maybe the bouclé loops helped it keep its size off the loom. I left 4" of fringe on both ends, which I tied off in groups of four warps each.
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| The final product (although this is not what the color really looks like) |
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| Close-up of the finished fabric |
