Tuesday 1 May 2018

Weaving to wear

Early this year I was given some beautiful soft grey yarn with instructions to make something for myself with it. It had no label so I'm not sure if it was all wool or whether it had some other fibre in it. I used it for a warp and chose a darker grey fine wool as a weft to weave an 8 shaft twill variation. Here is the finished fabric. Now I have to decide how to make it up into some sort of top, preferably with an element of drape. Thank you Barbara - I love it.




One possibility I am considering is to combine my woven fabric (left) with a commercially woven "pashmina" (right), lighter in colour and patterned. I'm still not sure how I would use these two fabrics together so I will put it in the "think about it" basket for now.