Colour Field Scarf

A Weaving Pattern for Rigid Heddle Looms // Design by Felicia Lo

Weave a beautifully elegant and silky scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a range of hand-dyed semi-solid sock yarns for the warp and bring them all together with a single hand-dyed lace yarn.  

Your choice of warp and weft colours will make all the difference! For this scarf, Felicia chose to use six different colours for the warp, but you could choose just two or three colours, or hold a few different colours together to make fine stripes. It’s up to you!

SKILL LEVEL

• Beginner

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

• 10 1/4" / 26 cm wide x 77" / 195.6 cm long plus 6" / 15 cm fringe per end

YARN

• Warp: 1 mini-skein set SweetGeorgia Hexa Hue Tough Love Sock in Eclipse  (six 105 yd / 96 m per 1 oz / 28 g mini-skeins; 1700 ypp / 3427 mpkg; 80% easy-care merino, 20% nylon)
• Weft: 1 skein SweetGeorgia 20/2 Mulberry Silk in Tempest (547 yd / 500 m per 1.7 oz / 50 g skein; 4960 ypp / 10,000 mpkg; 100% mulberry silk)

EQUIPMENT & TOOLS

• Loom: 4-shaft loom with a minimum 13" / 33 cm weaving width
• Tools: 15-dent / 60/10 heddle, 1 boat shuttle, bobbins
  Please also see our list of recommended Warping Equipment & Weaving Tools.
• Weave Structure: plain weave
• Warp Length: 3 yd / 2.7 m (includes 20" / 51 cm for loom waste incorporating 12" / 30 cm fringes, 8" / 7.3 cm take-up & shrinkage)
• Warp Ends: 192 ends (32 warp ends per colour)
• Warp Sett: 15 epi / 6 epcm
• Weft Sett: 15 epi / 6 epcm
• Width in Reed: 12 3/4" / 32 cm
• Woven Length: weave 80" / 203.2 cm

The pattern is free for School of SweetGeorgia members.

The School of SweetGeorgia offers many courses and tutorial resources to help you improve your skills and discover new techniques, including Felicia Lo's Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics course.