Atlantic Craft Trade Show

This coming weekend, my wholesale class is heading to Halifax to display products at ACTS. We've known about this almost the entire school year, but that didn't stop me from selling as much as I can and knowing I would have to make more items before heading to ACTS. So I decided to weave a scarf. It's a structure called Huck lace. I've experimented with it a little when making tea towels, but I don't know how it will feel in scarf form.

One thing I know about myself is that I like symmetrical things. I purposefully made this scarf slightly assymetrical as a challenge to myself. I like how it's turning out!

Doubleweave

Our focus in my weaving class currently is to learn about double weave.

Threading

We put on a warp that was two colours - light and dark- so we could really see how the weave structure works.

So at first we wove dark on top, light on bottom and then alternated. The other great thing is that you can create two separate cloths, a tube, a double width cloth, multiple tubes. The possibilities are endless really.

Another part of learning doubleweave is working with different fibres. In the above example, we used cotton (coloured part) and wool (white yarn). Once this is washed, it will shrink incredibly (and intentionally). Think of the beautiful intentional draping you could make with this technique!