{"id":1288,"date":"2010-04-23T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T17:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2011-01-24T18:32:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:32:50","slug":"handwoven-bamboo-scarves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/04\/handwoven-bamboo-scarves\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwoven Bamboo Scarves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis is another set of three bamboo scarves I’ve recently woven. I just love working with Bambu 7 – it’s so smooth and silky, so easy to wind on the back beam, and finishes so nicely.<\/p>\n

On the downside, the 100% bamboo yarn does split easily, so I have to pay attention when I’m threading the heddles and reed to make sure my hook doesn’t split it. Also, I have to finish it with a double twisted fringe or the yarn poufs out into a bamboo afro that doesn’t please me. But I like its look so much that these are minor issues.<\/p>\n

These three scarves all have a solid ecru warp, and all share the same threading sequence. \u00c2\u00a0I wove the scarf on the right with a solid navy weft, which is what I threaded for, to get that interesting overlapped twill design. \u00c2\u00a0I like it okay, but it’s not my favorite handwoven scarf, and I don’t know that I’ll do it again.<\/p>\n

The other two are much classier, at least to my eye. \u00c2\u00a0Both have the same solid ecru weft, and as I mentioned the same threading at the navy one. I experimented with a variety of treadling patterns using my PCX computer program, and came up with these two, both of which please me.<\/p>\n

The scarf on the top is my favorite, with a somewhat complex twill design. The complexity of the twill not only adds visual interest, it makes this handwoven scarf AMAZINGLY soft and flexible.<\/p>\n

On the left is a beautiful scarf as well, with a weaving pattern that ended up producing a very classic look, particularly in this solid ecru color. This one happens to be Margaret’s<\/a> favorite of the batch. It really is lovely; I just prefer the one that drapes a bit better.<\/p>\n

I’ve gotta get back to the loom now, but tell me, which one do you prefer?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another set of three bamboo scarves I’ve recently woven. I just love working with Bambu 7 – it’s so smooth and silky, so easy to wind on the back beam, and finishes so nicely.<\/p>\n

On the downside, the 100% bamboo yarn does split easily, so I have to pay attention when I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[214,227],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-bamboo","tag-handwoven-scarves","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}