Thursday, November 19, 2009

More scarves

I've now finished weaving this dyed silk yarn. I had 3 colours and wove 3 scarves and the 4th scarf I used the leftovers from the first 3. The first 2 scarves I have shown here. For the last 2 scarves I threaded the loom differently.
Instead of straight 1 to 8 like I did for the first 2:I did this:I now have to finish the fringes and than wash the scarves.
For now they look like this:
Scarf 3 detail:Scarf 4 detail:
All though the colours were all different, the 2nd colour in each batch was very similar so in this last scarf that makes it blend in together.

I liked the effect I got from the dyed yarn (ball dyed on both sides with a different colour) so I will use this dye method again in future.

I have not come any further with dyeing the Shetland yarn. Another job is getting the little loom ready for weaving with some modifications. I hope to get this done before the weekend.

3 comments:

  1. Your scarves are simply beautiful! I think the dyed yarn makes the structure very interresting.
    I look forward to see the dyed Shetland yarn. I machine-knit a lot with Shetland yarn, manufactured in Italy (by Filatura di Grignasco). The garments are beautiful even after several years of heavy use by kids.

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  2. The dyed yarn came out great in those scarves! Nice job!

    Sue

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  3. Charlotte and Sue, thanks for the comments. I'm looking forward to using this dyeing method with different yarn. This yarn I could only use as weft yarn. It will be interesting to see the effect, if yarn dyed this way is used as warp yarn.

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