Festival fil et fibre

This weekend is our first festival/market to start selling and promoting our courses. The festival is at Le Mas d Azil.

Time for a few more

There are still another 8 days until the wool festival at Mas d Azil, so time for a few more creations! These scarves use a networking threading based on overlapping sinewave design lines. multiple twill tie-up and "tromp as writ". 16 shafts for the design plus 2 for the plain selvedges.

This one is with a silk warp and cashmere weft.

This one is with a silk warp and merino weft.

Extract from the draft

Pashminas

A new pashmina design in merino and silk warp, with combinations of linen, silk and lambswool weft. This design has a patterned border inspired by kilim rugs. I ve also added some thicker wool silk in the warp. Because it's not evenly distributed and a lot thicker, this was warped traditionally rather than sectionally and has gone on a second warp beam.

detail before finishing "fluffs" the fibres

the thicker wool/silk measured out on the warping board

merino (red and blue) and the silk (yellow and green)

the thicker wool/silk on the second warp beam

 

Second pashima underway with linen/silk warp. I think it might be much more linen than silk and a bit stiff, I ll sleep on it before deciding whether to change it back to linwool.

Reverted to linwool!