Night Windows Scarf

Another disappointing project, that I have revised mid stream.  This scarf was featured in Interweave's Design Collection 19 and is designed to use Perle Cotton and chenille accents for the warp and weft in a checkerboard pattern.  I have used chenille in the past and it works OK as a warp on a 4 harness loom with an 8 dent reed.  It did not hold up using it on a rigid heddle loom with a 12 dent reed, the chenille frayed and raveled pulling through the heddle holes.  It might work on an 8 dent rigid heddle, but then the cotton would be fairly loose.  Next time, I'll try it on the 4 harness, it just wastes so much yarn that I hate to put it on the Newcomb.

I pulled all the chenille out of the heddles and ended up with a crammed and spaced technique and added a few rows of a variegated silk at each end of the scarf

Date Finished  March 2012

Loom  Rigid Heddle

Weave Structure  plain weave

Reed  12 epi

Warp     Fiber  3/2 perle cotton

              Count - 150 yds per ball

              Color  black

              Mfr  Aunt Lydia's 3

              Source  Michaels - 

Warp     Width in Reed

              Ends - 70

              Length  7 feet, used 1 1/2 balls

Weft      Fiber - rayon 8/2

              Count  1600/#

              Color  black

              Mfr  Dragon Tale

              Source  Earthguild

Beat                       50/50                     

Size   8 by 60

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