Color Crush Scarf

For this project, designer Deborah Jarchow decided to experiment with honeycomb to showcase yarns with different sizes and textures. In a structure such as honeycomb, the cloth radically changes from its appearance on the loom to its final form after wet-finishing. Sampling is really the only way to determine what a fabric will look like after finishing, so she sampled a few different cell sizes, weft yarns, and setts. Deborah also tested a firmer beat and different spacing options between the honeycomb rows to see what might develop. Finally, she experimented with a monochrome warp and one with mixed colors to see how color affected the design.

Her sampling showed that the pattern is more defined if a thick yarn is used around the honeycomb cells. The Me and Zucca yarns used together create that colorful bold outline. She also loved the alternating rows of cells in multicolored CinCin and the neutral color with a little sparkle provided by Icon.

It was exciting to weave with a wide variety of yarns that some might not think to use on the loom and end up with a dramatic and fun-to-weave scarf!

STRUCTURE
Plain weave with honeycomb.

EQUIPMENT
Rigid-heddle loom, 10" weaving width; 7.5- or 8-dent heddle; 2 stick shuttles; 2 boat shuttles; 2 bobbins; 2 pick-up sticks.

YARNS
Warp: Autumn Wind Print (90% cotton/10% cashmere; 175 yd/1.75 oz; 1,588 yd/lb), #7 Amazon Jungle, 186 yd. Weft: CinCin (50% viscose/25% cotton/20% acrylic/5% poly; 80 yd/1.75 oz; 726 yd/lb), #06 Mozambique, 78 yd; Icon (36% alpaca/35% polyamide/15% silk/14% cotton; 165 yd/1.75 oz; 1,496 yd/lb), #106 Mocha, 85 yd; Zucca (58% nylon/42% polyamide; 72 yd/1.75 oz; 653 yd/lb), #5115 Paprika, 19 yd; Me (100% superwash merino; 75 yd/1.75 oz; 685 yd/lb), #329, 38 yd. All yarns by Trendsetter Yarns.

OTHER SUPPLIES
Cardboard strip, 1" wide for warp separator.

WARP LENGTH
68 ends 98" long (allows 6" for take up, 18" for loom waste; loom waste includes fringe).

SETTS
Warp: 7.5 or 8 dpi (1 per slot and hole in a 7.5- or an 8-dent heddle). Weft: 9 ppi for plain-weave sections; 10 ppi for plain weave inside honeycomb cells; 3 ppi for triple-yarn outlines on honeycomb cell (2 strands Me, 1 strand Zucca).

DIMENSIONS
Width in the heddle: 9" in a 7.5-dent heddle; 84⁄8" in an 8-dent heddle. Woven length: (measured under tension on the loom) 74". Finished size: 7" x 66" with 4½" fringe.

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