Handwoven Colour Gamp Shawl

With infinite options for playing with colour, enjoy the interactions between fifteen hues of a spectrum with the Colour Gamp Shawl. Working with gradient mini-skein sets or limiting your selections to just analogous colours, this handwoven gamp is designed to allow you to see how colours mix and blend together. Explore the depth and richness that can be made when you overlap colours from seemingly opposite sides of the colour wheel!

weaving bobbins would in Party of Five mini-skein yarn set in Emerald
Colour Gamp handwoven shawl by Felicia Lo

HANDWOVEN COLOUR & OPTICAL MIXING

The Colour Gamp was one of the very first projects woven in the School of SweetGeorgia, woven for Felicia Lo’s Handwoven Colour online weaving course. The focus of this series is on working with colour and how we can incorporate handpainted and hand-dyed yarns into our handwoven projects.

The purpose of the Colour Gamp was to teach optical mixing — how all of the 15 hues used in both the project mix and blend in a plain weave structure. This is a big, broad, exciting area to play in as there are so many things we can do with optical mixing. Of course the best way to learn about how colour works in weaving is to actually weave with it. Making observations and then using those observations to inform our next projects. This project is a great way to explore how your chosen colour palette interacts with each other… a fantastic, and fun, learning tool!

Handwoven Colour Gamp Shawl
Woven using our SweetGeorgia Party of Five mini-skein sets, one each in: Emerald, Gemstone, and Tanzanite.

CONSIDERATIONS FOR EPI & SETT

Woven on a Schacht Baby Wolf floor loom at 10 ends per inch, the finished Colour Gamp shawl has a beautiful drape that feels soft and luscious. In Felicia’s Which Reed Should I Use vlog episode, she talks about considerations to make when choosing which reed to use for your weaving project. How changing the sett can affect the feeling of your finished piece.

There are a number of other handwoven projects shown in the video which all use fingering-weight, knitting yarn as the warp, ranging from 10 to 20 ends per inch (epi). Felicia also includes her thought process behind designing these projects, and how we can use one project to inform the choices we make for the next.

Felicia Lo's Colour Gamp shawl - weaving in progress using Party of Five mini-skein yarn
Weaving in-progress on the Schacht Baby Wolf floor loom with a sett of 10 ends per inch

If you are interested in exploring more weaving content, we invite you to come and join us at the School of SweetGeorgia. There you can find a range of online weaving courses and pattern inspiration meant for weavers at every level. Whether you are working on a rigid heddle or multi-shaft loom, there is something for everyone. We hope to see you inside the School!

Colour Gamp handwoven shawl by Felicia Lo
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Handwoven Colour Gamp Shawl

Enjoy the interactions of colour between these fifteen hues of a spectrum and weave your own colour gamp shawl!
Craft Weaving
Maker Felicia Lo
Designer Felicia Lo
Skill Level Intermediate

Equipment

  • 1 4-shaft loom with a minimum 26" / 66 cm weaving width
  • 1 10-dent reed
  • 1 boat or stick shuttle
  • 1 reed hook
  • 1 heddle hook

Materials

Instructions

  • Download and learn more about weaving a Colour Gamp shawl at Felicia Lo's Handwoven Colour course at the School of SweetGeorgia, available for download by SOS members.
  • Wind a 2.67 yd / 2.45 m warp with the warp yarn using a warping board or mill, following the order listed in the pattern. Complete the steps for dressing your loom.
  • Wind the bobbins with the weft yarns for a boat shuttle. Weave a plain weave header to spread the warp.
    weaving bobbins would in Party of Five mini-skein yarn set in Emerald
  • Begin weaving with the weft yarn and hemstitch the beginning edge. Change weft colours colours with every 16 to 18 picks.
  • Cut the shawl off the loom, finishing the ends as desired. In this case, I finished each edge with hemstitching.
  • Wet-finish the towels and roll in an absorbent towel to remove excess moisture. Hang over a towel bar to dry. Press very gently with a warm iron, if desired. Enjoy!
    Colour Gamp handwoven shawl by Felicia Lo

Notes

To weave the scarf version, you’ll need half the total yardage and at least a rigid heddle loom with a 10-dent reed and a 12-inch weaving width.
Learn more at Felicia Lo’s Handwoven Colour course at the School of SweetGeorgia.
  • Weave Structure: Plain weave
  • Warp Length: 2.67 yd / 2.45 m (includes 20″ / 51 cm of loom waste 
  • Warp Yarn: Approx. 680 yards of SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock (425 yd / 388 m per 4oz / 115 g skein; 80% Superwash Merino, 20% Nylon) in 15 hues. Plus approximately 35 yards of a dark hue for selvedges and border.
  • Weft Yarn: Approx. 710 yards of SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock (425 yd / 388 m per 4oz / 115 g skein; 80% Superwash Merino, 20% Nylon) in 15 hues.
  • Finished/Blocked Dimensions: 21 3/4 inches (55 cm) wide x 63 3/4 inches (162 cm) long, not including fringe.
 

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