This lovely warp is all my handspun silk – samples from a class I took a few years ago from Coleen Nimetz at the Cowichan Hand-To-Hand Workshop event in Duncan, B.C. The white silks include bombyx (wide bands) and eri silk. There is also tussah (brown) and red eri (that lovely red/gold that I have fallen in love with) and the black is some fine black wool plyed with bombyx. I used some bombyx silk I already had for the weft of a scarf and then some recycled sari silk (from Chaotic Fibres) that tried spinning by itself for the bag (see below). The sett was 30 epi and the structure is plain weave with (5-sharft) satin stripes to show off the colours. And, of course, I had to throw in a little colour&weave.
The bag was made in an online workshop this spring by Cora Timothy who coached a group of us through creating this lovely bag … and I still haven’t found a cord lovely enough to “finish” the bag (one must keep some pleasures for the future 😉