The watery hand painted silk is on the loom, and I’m trying out various wefts. The warp is 30/2 silk, with roughly 7,440 yards per pound (ypp). As a general rule I like my weft threads to be similarly sized to the warp. I don’t have much (any?) colored 30/2 silk so I tried a number of options.
From the bottom:
A rough tussah silk singles yarn in pale green with lots of nubblies, at 7,425 ypp . You probably can’t see anything but th
nubs. I’ve had this yarn for almost 4 years now and have yet to find the right place for this yarn...this isn’t it.
Next up is a silk frise in navy. 7,425 ypp, but again, not the right place for it.
3rd trial is a silk-linen blend, in medium blue, but only 2,400 ypp. The color is ok, but I don’t like the size and the linen in
4th is 30/2 silk, at 4,900 ypp, in an interesting olive-y celery-ish green. I like it.
5th is 30/2 silk in a silvery-blue. A beautiful yarn, but too pale, I think.
6th is 30/2 silk in darker blue. This might be nice. Or it might be too dark.
Note that none of those wefts is packed/beat correctly. It’s hard to do that when there’s nothing solid to weave against. And I w fix the oddness on the left selvedge before I start weaving.
I’m going to stop auditioning here and weave the first scarf with the green. Once I see a bunch of it I’ll have a better idea how to silvery-blue and the darker blue might look, and if I need to try out other options.
We’re off!
P.S. If you’re a night owl, be sure to check out the sky tonight – the peak of the Perseids meteor shower.
August 11th, 2016 |
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