Simple supplementary warp scarves.
These three scarves are part of my ongoing journey with Jane Stafford’s School of Weaving. This project, from Season 3 on extending plain weave, took me out of my comfort zone by adding a supplementary warp thread that could either be incorporated in the fabric or float on top or behind.
Project Specs: Warp: Maurice Brassard 16/2 cotton with hand dyed 20/2 silk as the supplementary thread. Sett: Selvages (Fuschia) 40epi; Centre 20epi. Weft: same as warp, with Maurice Brassard 16/2 bamboo in yellow for the third scarf. Loom: Spring II Started 22 Jan 2022, cut off loom 31 Jan 2022 - a nice quick project.
I had a lot of fun playing with the various possibilities. Here, the supplementary warp is combined with the same silk in the weft to create offsetting “bricks”.
And here I’m playing with stripes in the cotton weft (using a light blue cotton that’s quite similar in colour to the silk) and floating the supplementary warp on top of the fabric for two picks, then behind the fabric for two picks – sort of like a running stitch.
