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<\/a><\/p>\nYou can see the water getting progressively cleaner with each scour. After these four I dried the skeins, as I wasn’t quite ready to dye them. On dye day, I did one more scour bath, and the water was pretty clear.<\/p>\n
I dyed the skeins with light and dark blue, and a medium green. Here you see them going from dripping wet to almost dry, then dry and wound into balls, and finally the warp chains.<\/p>\n
Pretty amazing how much the color lightened from wet to dry, isn’t it? These are 30\/2 silk skeins, so it’s very lightweight and fine – more than 7,400 yards per pound. I had 720 ends to make a warp that was about 24″ wide in the reed. Because the warp was variegated and I thought it would be busy, I decided to keep the weave structure simple, and used and all-over huck lace.<\/p>\n For the first piece I used a sort of unusual yarn that’s been in my cupboard for a while, a 20\/2 rayon in a beautiful red-violet. This has even more yards\/pound than the 30\/2 silk. In this photo look at how much light passes through the shawl and you get an idea of just how airy it is. A featherweight for sure.<\/p>\n I wove the second piece with 20\/2 twilight silk, so it’s a bit heavier than the purple shawl. Still light and lovely.<\/p>\n I took a closeup of this one so you can see the structure better, and see how different the two sides look.<\/p>\n I chose the green 30\/2 silk I’d dyed earlier this month for the weft for the last piece. Again it’s a very lightweight piece, woven and sewn into an airy cowl. Here it is long.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n