Pacific Plaid Scarf

Pacific Plaid Scarf // weaving pattern for 4-shaft looms 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.

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.

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!

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SKILL LEVEL

Beginner

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

YARN

Warp & Weft: 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. Add colours as desired. 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.

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