Plaited Twill Scarf

Another scarf and another new structure, plaited twill.  I love the look of this, but not sure that I like the way it wove up.  There are really two ways to weave the plaited twill.  The first requires that on some of the picks you lift up 7 shafts at a time.  That makes for a heavy lift.  The way that I wove it is physically much easier, only one shaft lifted on some of the picks.  But the downside is that the best side, is woven facing the floor.  You need to either be a contortionist to watch the cloth develop or keep a mirror handy (and still be a contortionist)  The patterning is not apparent on the top side and so of course, I found a couple of treadling errors after I completed the scarf and got it off the loom.  I guess that means another scarf for me.  Drat.

The pattern comes from Handwoven, 8 Shaft Scarves and called for a sett of 20 epi.  I increased this to 25 but I think next time with the tencel warp I will go back to 20 epi.  Plenty of red and gold tencel for another scarf, also have 8/2 in black.

Date Finished

Loom  Baby Wolf

Weave Structure Plaited Twill

Reed 10, 25 epi

Warp     Fiber  tencel

              Count 8/2

              Color  gold

              Mfr

              Source  WEBS

Warp     Width in Reed  6 1/2

              Ends  168

              Length  3 yds

Weft      Fiber tencel
              Count  8/2

              Color red and variegated red

              Mfr

              Source  WEBS

Beat                       50/50                     

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