Woven to make more cowls…by now I had standardized my warps to be always 28” wide and 48 EPI with this particular bamboo-rayon yarn. I wove the fabric the same width on the loom for cowls and tops. I try to get some of each from the yardage - usually weaving about 20 yards at a time for this fabric. This allows me to better manage the fine yarn and create more individual pieces. I change the weft up as much as I can to see how far I can push the color combinations in the warp.
Completed in the summer of 2017, this warp contained only blue and silver yarns. The patterning differences came from alternating the order of those colors in the warp as I threaded (blue-blue-blue-blue-silver-silver-silver-silver; blue-silver-blue-silver: blue-blue-silver-silver). This allowed me to play with the color and weave effects in different ways.
Woven on my Macomber - 8 harnesses - twill weave structure.
I did use some of this fabric to experiment with other garment shapes, landing on the one you see in the photo below. It was sort of like a wrap but also like a shrug. One single piece of fabric sewn (without cutting or darts) together in the back and reinforced with some handwoven, indigo dyed remnant fabrics. I love to try and design garments that require little to no waste in the construction process. This fabric drapes so well that it can withstand very little (to no) shaping and look fabulous. More of these garments to come…
