LIMITED EDITION 8-Shaft, "65 Roses Take 2" Silk Scarves Weaving Kit  

Featured in Handwoven Nov/Dec 2022 are our "65 Roses Take 2" Scarves, (100% silk, of course!), a collaboration between Robin Wilton & Susan Du Bois.

Treenway Silks donates a minimum of 10% of sales of the 65 Roses Silk Scarves Kit in honor of Andrea's angels to help find a cure for CF

KIT:
This draft is sett at 40 EPI. The structure is polychrome "Jin" also known as "Turned Taquete"  There are 3 colors in the warp and one color in the weft. The kit includes two treadling options:  you can weave one of each or if you really love one of them, you can weave both scarves the same.

Your Limited Edition 8-shaft, 100% Silk "65 Roses Take 2" makes TWO scarves (each scarf is approx 8.5" wide and 72" long  and includes:

OPTION #1 (#18 Dragonfly Weft, as featured in Handwoven N/D 2022):

   788 yds (72g) of Kiku (20/2) silk yarn, color #  57 Raven Black
   788 yds (72g) of Kiku (20/2) silk yarn, color #314 Leap Frog (green)
   788 yds (72g) of Kiku (20/2) silk yarn, color #418.D Magenta
   127 yds (12g) of Kiku (20/2) silk yarn, color #  18 Dragonfly (weft for hems)
1,546 yds (94g) of Gekko (60/2x2 cabled silk yarn*), color #18 Dragonfly (weft for body of scarves)

If you need a copy of of Handwoven N/D 2022 issue, that's an option (see drop down box selection)

*What's cabled silk yarn?  CLICK HERE to read Treenway Silks' "I ♥ Yarn" newsletter story, August 2022.

THE 65 ROSES BACK STORY:
This project is near and dear to my heart...over 25 years ago, Susie Rider and I worked together while she was pregnant with her first child, Andrea.  When Andrea was about 4.5 years old, her "failure to thrive" was finally diagnosed as cystic fibrosis (CF), an incurable disease. 

What inspires me to support Andrea's angels is Susie channeled her grief and pain over Andrea's diagnosis into fighting for a cure.  Susie organized Andrea's angels (Aa) and has been tirelessly raising funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for a cure ever since!!

You don't realize it, but you also "know" Susie, too, as she designed the Treenway Silks logo and she designs all our print ads and other graphic needs.

Handwoven magazine's "What if" issue, was the inspriration to create a second 65 Roses scarf..hence the "Take 2".  What a great idea for a fundraising project!

CREATING THE DRAFTS:
For Handwoven’s 40^th anniversary issue (S/O 2019 issue), I designed “65 Roses” scarf, using “#65 RosesAa” name draft woven as crackle, as a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.  “65 Roses” is what young children often say when trying to pronounce the name of their disease.

Some “what if’s” have been teasing my brain since then, while planning a new fundraising scarf design.  What if I took the profile draft and wove it as a different structure?  What if I used jewel tone colors?  What if I used 8-shaft polychrome Jin for the structure?

I love the drape that Jin structure gives to scarves.  Short float lengths (no more than 3 ends in warp and weft) make it great for wearables.

I started with the original 4s profile draft from our first 65 Roses scarf to adapt to 8-shafts.  I quickly found that quite a bit of “creative license” was needed to create an interesting design.

Jin is traditionally a 2-color “opposites” warp, but I wanted a more colorful, jewel tones scarf, I followed Bonnie Inouye’s example of Jin polychrome warp (three colors), a design first for me. 

Another reason I love the Jin structure is the optical color blending.  Colors in skeins can change dramatically as they intersect.  Computer software is an invaluable tool to audition warp and weft colors to find “contenders” worthy of sampling on the loom.

Robin, a talented weaver and friend, embraced the challenge of warping and sampling five weft colors and two treadling designs.  Another “what if”…what if our first choices are different?  And of course they are—both weft color and treadling choice!  Our different viewpoints is one of the many reasons I love collaborating with Robin.

We solved by weaving TWO scarves, one in each of the two treadling designs.  Robin wove both scarves in Dragonfly weft color, but she wove a good size sample in her favorite purple.

Scarf designed by Susan Du Bois and woven by Robin Wilton for Treenway Silks.
Thank you Handwoven magazine for the use of the photo.