Weaverly

The following image is a scan of a fabric I wove on a rigid heddle loom a few weeks ago. It’s a balanced plain weave of 12 epi and ppi, hand washed and hung to dry. The yarn is a handspun wool/linen blend from my stash (I spun and plied the yarn from a custom batt I found at Lofty Fiber last year, an unlikely combination of natural flax and dyed wool). The scan is roughly life sized.

And following is another scan of the same cloth, this time at about 32 times life size, executed on an old Epson scanner. In this scan the linen fibers really stand out.

This was a fun project. First of all, the spinning was very easy. And second, I do love to play with my scanner! I feel like a kid with a new microscope.