{"id":5417,"date":"2014-07-27T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2014-07-27T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T18:01:20","slug":"silken-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/07\/silken-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Silken Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from my baby wraps, all of which are custom orders, I sell the overwhelming majority of my hand weaving at juried art & craft shows. So far this year I’ve only had one show, in East Aurora with my fellow Roycroft Artisans<\/a>. Although I didn’t sell many pieces, those that I did sell were my pricier ones. <\/p>\n

I have two shows in August so needed to replenish my stock. Weaving more silks and shawls seemed to be the thing to do.<\/p>\n

Way back in early June I wove three silk scarves<\/a>. When I set up for the June show I got a bit of a jolt when I realized those scarves weren’t with me. Where were they? I pictured my house—they weren’t where my recently-finished pieces usually were. What had I done with them?<\/p>\n

Suddenly it struck me – I had put them in a bag and brought them to a Guild meeting to fringe, and then forgot about them. I knew where that bag was so wasn’t worried. <\/p>\n

These scarves have a 30\/2 silk warp – finer than the 20\/2 I usually weave with. I used a gebrochene pattern, giving me the complexity I like. I wove the first one with 4 strands of ruby tram silk.<\/p>\n

\"ruby<\/a><\/p>\n

I wove the second with 4 strands of tram, too, this time in a burnt orange. The orange tram was quite a bit finer than the ruby, so this scarf weighs nothing. To my eye and hand it’s by far the best of the three – the color, the sheen, and the feel. <\/p>\n

\"orange<\/a><\/p>\n

I wove the last in a 20\/2 twilight silk. Usually I love the twilight, but this time, paired with the 30\/2 warp, it created a scarf that’s nice to look at but ‘heavy’ compared to that lighter-than-air burnt orange.<\/p>\n

\"twilight<\/a><\/p>\n

After the show I moved to shawls…I’d sold 5 in June & needed to have more in my stash. I stuck with silk and with an 8-shaft pattern, this time in a ‘falling leaves’ weave pattern. <\/p>\n

\"falling<\/a><\/p>\n

I had 4 complementary colors of silk that I wanted to use in weft. My plan was several inches of color one, then several inches of color 1 alternated with color 2, then solid color 2, then color 2 alternated with color 3….you get the idea.<\/p>\n

I’m quite happy with how it turned out.<\/p>\n

\"falling<\/a><\/p>\n

\"falling<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I decided to use those same colors, but instead of the 1-and-1 transition, I’d use the gradation plan I use for my baby wraps.
\n\"falling<\/a><\/p>\n

\"falling<\/a><\/p>\n

\"falling<\/a><\/p>\n

For the third shawl on the warp I used 3 blues and the gradations. I also changed the treadling, beat a bit harder, and decided to hem instead of fringe. (I often have helpful, or at least helpful-meaning, artists offer suggestions at shows; last year one snarky artist said, “I’d never wear something with fringe.” Initially hurt, I decided to give it a shot. I won’t do it again, at least not on a silk shawl.)<\/p>\n

\"got<\/a><\/p>\n

The two darker blues – twilight and pacific – although quite a bit different on the cone, are too similar for the gradation to work. C’est la vie. Also, the harder beating produced a shawl that doesn’t drape as nicely. I definitely prefer the first two.<\/p>\n

I wove 2 more silk shawls, too – they just got cut off the loom and still need fringing, wet finishing, and pressing. You’ll see them eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aside from my baby wraps, all of which are custom orders, I sell the overwhelming majority of my hand weaving at juried art & craft shows. So far this year I’ve only had one show, in East Aurora with my fellow Roycroft Artisans. Although I didn’t sell many pieces, those that I did sell were […]<\/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":[227,325,381],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-handwoven-shawl","tag-silk","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","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=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5431,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}