Checkerboard swedish lace

I revised the draft developed in the last post to get it back to 10 shafts and 10 treadles. Repeating the treadling at the changing of layers to create a closed selvedge.

At first I was just going to weave a sample but in the end I added a few more warp ends so that the sample could be a scarf.  After the first square was woven I noticed a couple of misthreadings, so corrected them and started again. The yarn is 15/2 silk (14 wraps/cm) so each layer was sett at 7epcm (18epi). I experimented with zquares using weft in both of the greens in the warp and alternating them.

The silk is lovely and soft with the doubleweave giving it more weight. The sett was a little close, the colours a little too similar and the silk too reflective for the plain weave to be seen through the "windows" in the lace, but the lace adds a nice texture to scarf.