I made this shawl in 2008, experimenting with gradient colors as well as with network drafting. There are 30 hand-dyed colors in this piece - 29 shades of silk that fade gradually from fuchsia to turquoise, plus a hand-dyed black cashmere weft.
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This shawl is an evolution of the gradient color techniques used in Black Jewel. It contains 49 hand-dyed colors - 29 fading from fuchsia to turquoise in the warp, and 20 shading from yellow to red in the weft. This is one of my favorite shawls!
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Ocean Sunset II, a gift for my sister-in-law, was an experiment with knitted blanks. I took a length of knitted fabric, dyed it in a color gradient from red to yellow, and then unraveled it to use as weft. For the warp, I hand-dyed 29 colors, shading gradually from fuchsia to turquoise.
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This shawl was my first experiment in gradient dyeing. There are 20 colors in this shawl, shading gradually from red to yellow and then back again, in both warp and weft. The draft is an 8-shaft advancing twill, developed by Flavian Geis and published in Weaver's Magazine.
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This shawl was woven on the same warp as Liquid Fire (20 hand-dyed colors shading gradually from red to yellow), but with a black silk weft.
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This shawl was my very first attempt at designing my own draft! I took the "Heart Throb Scarf" draft from "Twill Thrills: The Best of Weavers", and modified it rather severely to produce a tiger-eye look. Tiger-striped beads finished off the look.
I'm still very proud of it, even though it is one of my early pieces.
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Another shawl woven in early 2008, as part of my experiments with network drafting.
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I wove this shawl in early 2008, as part of my explorations into network drafting.
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Another very early work, woven on my Baby Wolf. It's a huck lace pattern on six shafts. I believe the draft came from Donna Muller's "Handwoven Laces", but am not sure.
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