Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Overshot Scarf (Civil War Scarf)

I finished my overshot wool scarf, and I'm very happy with it.  A weaver online called this scarf a Civil War scarf because the weaving draft by Johann Schleelein is very old, and the soldiers from the period of the Civil War would use a piece of an old worn coverlet as a scarf.

Johann Schleelein gave his son a book of his weaving drafts in 1844.  This one is Johann Schleelein 123.  I wove this on my Kessenich table loom.

 

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