Saori is no stranger to Peace Banners. Terri Bibby, Saori Salt Springs has made an annual event of weaving them. Bonnie Tarses added another dimension to the Peace Banners by assigning each letter of the alphabet a color based on a children's book. At a workshop in Arles, the participants wove peace in a variety of different languages. Each letter was woven in the designated color (from the book) for the number of rows of the position of the letter in the alphabet eg. A=1, B=2. C=3).
I contacted Bonnie to see if she was willing to do a Skype or Telephone lesson. We were not able to coordinate our schedules. So I developed my own color scheme based on Letter-Color Synaesthia by Cassidy Curtis (http://otherthings.com/uw/syn/). My warp is P=Purple=16, E=Orange=5, A=Yellow=1, C=Green=3, E=Orange=5. I wound a warp with three sets of this color scheme with black in between.
I started by weaving the weft using the same colors and numbering system. Then I added additional colors and techniques to see how they worked with the warp.
I wove some clasped weft and some loops.
I liked the look of other colors with the warp.
Above, is a picture of the finished project. I decided to weave a möbius cowl. I wove the beginning warp threads into the end of the project after making a twist. The result is an infinity scarf.
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