collapse weave scarf 1

I was interested in doing something in deflected doubleweave and this scarf by Madelyn Van der Hoogt ("big bumps scarf" available from handwoven magazine) has the added attraction of having several different weft densities, so I can practice to improve my beating accuracy. The sea of green, is wool which is "fulled" (partially felted in the finishing process).

The bumps I'm changing to 8/2 cotton (pink) so they keep their weave texture. I ve also modified slightly the balance of wool to cotton in the warp to suit sectional warping. Everything progressed very straight forwardly.

on the loom

off the loom, ends tied together to keep the shrinkage even

fulled and finished

Madelyn talks about just cutting the fulled wool in a scallop pattern without any sewn edge. It kinda works but in the wool I used it was "borderline" and I don't think it will be very robust. I didn't get anything like the shrinkage in width that the draft suggested so maybe that is part of the problem? It's a nice pattern, maybe next time a narrower warp and a better solution for the cut ends.