I love weaving and wearing scarves. I use commercially spun silk yarn for most of my scarves. This weaves into light fabric which washes well and does not crease much. I also use alpaca, cashmere and merino.
Recently I have been weaving wider widths for wraps or Ruanas (like a poncho but open in front) These were made for an exhibition in December
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have included red to represent berries in a Winter Garden. The warp is
double knitting wool and the weft alpaca/wool blend |
This
represents daffodils and bluebells in the spring gardern. The warp is
lambswool and silk and the weft silk/
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For wraps and scarves , I normally
weave two or three scarves on the same warp. Even so these scarves take me on
average about 20 hours to make. Dyeing, setting up the loom and finishing off
take longer than the actual weaving.
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A 20 inch all silk wrap. This half of the warp was blue and green. and I used I fine silk weft. These wraps are selling quickly |
The other half of the warp was meant to be blue, purple and pink but I made a mistake and dyed a section green> It was a happy accident as it sold on the first day of my exhibition last December! |
I have woven scarves using two or
three threads of lambs -wool and silk for the warp so I can weave them more
quickly (and therefore sell at a lower price.) I have also used two strands of
silk
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These scarves cost £45-£55
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I also weave scarves using other
luxury yarns The warp of this scarf is is
alpaca and the weft silk and cashmere |
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I have a selection of scarves that
have been woven from woollen knitting yarn which take me a total of about 5
hours to make.
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This
scarf sold at £25.
Last updated 14/04/2008
