{"id":4381,"date":"2013-03-04T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2013-03-04T18:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:24:31","slug":"handwoven-shawls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/03\/handwoven-shawls-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwoven Shawls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time of year I just keep weaving and weaving and weaving. I’m working to build up my stock for the shows that will start this summer. I know that’s months away. I also know that I’ve been successful enough at these shows that I have to have lots of stock, lots of variety before the season starts. Once the shows start I have only a few weeks between them and can’t get a lot woven during that time. So now, when the weather’s too cold to be outside for long anyway, I spend lots of time at the loom, exercising my leg muscles pushing on treadles and my arms moving the shuttle and beater.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to vary the weaving patterns, yarn sizes, fiber types, and finished piece sizes both to make sure I’m having a great time and to build up a varied stock. Plus I’m trying to time different things as a means of making my pricing more systematic and sensible. So after weaving 16 scarves in bamboo or rayon in February, I decided it was time to do a few shawls. I’d purchased some of Tammy’s<\/a> lovely hand painted yarn specifically for this purpose. <\/p>\n

Yesterday I finished two of these scrumptious shawls.
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They’re handwoven from a colorway Tammy calls Silver Linings. I really like the fact that I had two different dye lots with very different color intensity. It worked beautifully to put a very thin band of solid purple at one end, then warp with the darker variegation, move to the lighter variegation, and end with a wide band of solid silver. I also used solid silver for the weft on both shawls. <\/p>\n

I’m working on another warp of 2 rayon chenille shawls, with a blend Tammy calls Frost. No sneak peeks today – they’ll be done soon enough.<\/p>\n

I sure do wish I had a way to get better color representations on pieces with a sheen to them. I’m never happy with the photos. Do you have any good ideas, short of setting up a whole photo studio complete with white walls, light shades, and more?<\/strong><\/p>\n

P.S. Looking back, the shots of the rayon scarves in the last post are pretty true and clear. Wonder what I did differently….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This time of year I just keep weaving and weaving and weaving. I’m working to build up my stock for the shows that will start this summer. I know that’s months away. I also know that I’ve been successful enough at these shows that I have to have lots of stock, lots of variety before […]<\/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":[325,249],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-rayon-chenille","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","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=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}