Stained-Glass Scarf

摘要

A FASCINATING SWEDISH LACE TABLECLOTH appears in Else Regensteiner's book The Art of Weaving. Designed by the author, it uses varied thicknesses of weft threads to add artistic innovation to the woven cloth. My aim was to capture that innovative style by reinterpreting the tablecloth into something new-a lace-weave cotton scarf. The photo of the tablecloth in the book is in black and white, so I took the author's bold use of color from other parts of the book as permission and incentive to make a splash with vibrant colors. Sapphire blue gradations in the warp provide a backdrop for the main attraction: bright bands of crimson-to-coral gradations in the weft at both ends of the scarf. I applied the concept of varied weft thicknesses in these bands of rich color. The interaction of the vibrant colors with the varied weft in the Swedish lace "windows" gives the impression of sunlit stained glass.