Thursday 25 April 2019

Claret coloured alpaca hand-woven scarves

What do you do with claret coloured 100% Australian alpaca yarn from Tailored Strands?  Well, I have hand-woven two lovely soft feeling luxurious scarves in two different patterns.  Both scarves are nominally 1800mm x 215mm and weigh 146g.
This time I have ear-marked one for myself, unless some one wants to buy it at the material price of $40.  Opps, it has a significant weaving error which I can see, can you?  The other one?  I have an idea, so it  may not appear in the shops unless I become desperate for stock.








Thursday 18 April 2019

A scarf with a difference

An interesting scarf has been hand-woven using an unlabelled yarn similar to Moda Vera Gentile, 92% nylon and 8% lurex.  This yarn has two threads with mainly silvered but sometimes pink coloured squares at intervals along the yarn.  Using Yeoman Aurora crepe (30% wool, 20% nylon, 50% acrylic) yarn as the weft the scarf is of an open, or loose, weave.  This scarf of only 80g may not keep you warm but its 1800mm x 240mm size will add that flowing flair of class to your outfit.