Luxuriously soft silk woolly scarf

Nov 26, 2020 | 2020, Winter 4 - 2020

Give a luxuriously soft silk wool scarf as a present! Individual warp threads form airy groups of stripes in the men’s scarf. Kirsi wove the scarf as a present and brought it to the Weaver’s Pick editing office. We fell in love with the scarf and wished for a similar pattern for the magazine.

It is easy to change the colour of the scarf just by changing the ground colour. Choose a dark colour for the ground where neutral white and beige stripes will come out. The ground color of the first scarf was dark green. Beige is thicker than the other yarns.

The Warp Silvia silkkivillalanka, tex 50×2, 50 g = n. 500 m
ja Sivilla silkkivillalanka, tex 50 x 4, 50 g = n. 250 m, Wetterhoff
Warp width 38,2 cm
number of warp ends 229
density 6 threads/cm
Length 2,8 m.
Reed 60/1.
Weave Twill
Weft Silvia silkwool, twofold

 

Instructions for winding the warp

The thicker Sivilla-yarn is marked in the instructions, otherwise the yarn is thinner Silvia.

16 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
5 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
5 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
18 threads white and navy blue alternately
1 thread light brown Sivilla
2 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
2 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
18 threads white and navy blue alternately
1 thread light brown Sivilla
5 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
5 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
17 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
5 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla
5 threads navy blue
1 thread light brown Sivilla = the middle

Wind the other edge of the warp as a mirror image.
229 threads in total

AMOUNT OF WARP YARN NEEDED, length 2,6 m
Silvia silkwool yarn, tex 50×2, 50 g = approx. 500 m
2911 navy blue 48 g
2935 white 17 g

Sivilla silkwool yarn, tex 50 x 4, 50 g = approx. 250 m
4905 light brown 16 g

 

 

Weaving instructions

Weave with twofold blue Silvia yarn using straight treadling. Weave with a double shuttle or throw two picks into the same shed going round the outermost warp thread.
The sett of the weft is 4 double threads/cm = 8 threads/cm.
The woven length is 163 cm.

AMOUNT OF WEFT YARN NEEDED for one scarf
Silvia silkwool yarn, tex 50×2, 50 g = approx. 500 m, Wetterhoff
2911 navy blue 74 g

Finishing

Make a twisted fringe á 9 cm. Cut the fringe to an even length.