Category: rayon
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Chocolate
The next few scarves will be woven with a dark chocolate brown weft. The photo doesn’t do the depth of colour justice – take my word for it – it’s a lot darker than this. I worked with indie dyers to get colours specific to my needs. Generally I asked them to make ‘semi-solids’,…
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One by One
I have great hopes of this design because it looks quite different depending on the angle at which the cloth is viewed. The warp is 2/16 bamboo (Brassard) and the weft various rayon yarns from my stash. Because yes, I’m still working on using up my stash! The weft is textured – a rough…
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Special Handling
Yesterday I posted about yarns that are ‘tender’ and need special handling. This yarn is not tender but it still needs special handling. Even though it was stored in a plastic bag, the bag was loose and during transportation, the coils of yarn around the cone loosened to the point where it was pretty much…
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Mining the Stash
Nine boxes. I was thinking there were six. Well, I am going to try to use some of this up. But first I need to see what is actually in those boxes. This is yarn from the fashion designer I used to weave for. She retired when she hit 65 and offered me her yarn…
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The Drape!
One of the things that people find appealing is a textile that feels good ‘in the hand’. A textile that bends and flows. That drapes lovingly around the body. I have been working with various forms of rayon for quite a few years, now. Rayon was developed to mimic silk, without the price of…