Pacific Plaid Scarf

Plaid Weaving Pattern for 4-Shaft Looms // Design by Felicia Lo

The Pacific Plaid scarf was designed to play with stripes, plaids, and tartan designs all on one warp. Design and choose a stripe pattern you like by creating some yarn windings first. Explore a variety of colour options with the Pacific Plaid Yarn Set.

You are welcome to dress your loom however you prefer. Felicia set up an 8/2 cotton dummy warp with her sectional warping equipment for 200 ends at 20 ends per inch and tied the new warp to the dummy warp. Then she used her DIY warping trapeze to beam the warp herself. The pattern instructions here describe a more conventional back-to-front warping process.

The pattern is free for School of SweetGeorgia members.

Skill Level

• Beginner

Yarn

• Warp & Weft: 5 cones Knoll 2/17 Nm Merino Lambswool (425 m / 464 yd per 50 g / 1.76 oz cone; 4222 ypp / 8500 mpkg; 100% merino lambswool) in Indigo (A) x 1 cone, Larkspur (B) x 2 cones, Lupin (C) x 1 cone, Hyacinth (D) x 1 cone for tartan scarf
  Sample photos include the addition of: Nimrod, Clementine and Papaya

Equipment & Tools

• Loom: 4-shaft loom with a minimum 12″ / 30.5 cm weaving width
• Tools: 10-dent (sleyed 2 per dent), at least 1 boat shuttle, bobbins

Structure

• Weave Structure: Twill
• Warp Length: 4.5 yds / 4.1 m (includes approximately 22″ / 55.9 cm for loom waste, fringes, and take-up)
• Warp Ends: 200 ends (2 warp ends for floating selvedges are taken from this total, if desired)
• Warp Sett: 20 epi / 8 epcm
• Weft Sett: 20 ppi / 8 ppcm
• Width in Reed: 10″ / 25.4 cm
• Woven Length: weave 70″ / 177.8 cm for each scarf with 2″/ 5 cm space in between = 142″ / 360.7 cm total length.

Finished Measurements

• 6 1/4″/ 15.9 cm wide x 56 1/4″ / 142.9 cm long plus 3″ / 7.5 cm fringe per end

This sampler was woven at 20 ends per inch with Knoll 2/17 Nm Merino Lambswool yarn. As an alternative, you could use the same instructions and weave a sampler with Gist Array wool yarn which can be sett at 24 ends per inch to create a finer, thinner cloth. Experiment with different colours and yarns to see what you can create!

Read more about the Pacific Plaid Scarf at the SweetGeorgia Blog.

This pattern is available for download in the School of SweetGeorgia Pattern Library. Not yet an SOS member? Visit the School of SweetGeorgia for online fibre arts workshops and resources to help expand your skills and discover new techniques!