This came off the same warp as the silk/cashmere jacket and the garnet shawl, and shares the same draft as the garnet shawl. (I liked the pattern so much I wove a second one!)
Weaving this was a real challenge – for some reason, one of the shafts in my loom was floating, so there are many irregularities in the cloth. For this reason, I didn’t show it at CNCH (my regional weaving conference), but I still think it’s pretty.
Computer simulation of the pattern, generated by weaving software.
The dyed cashmere/silk weft yarn, shown against the silk warp yarns.
The shawl on the loom.
A photo of the shawl before wet-finishing.
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