Wool worsted yarn in two colors for the Rus Kaftan cloth.
Part 1 of this series can be found here.
The yarn I ordered arrived today for the Rus Kaftan cloth project. I am very pleased with the colors. The reddish color is exactly the dark maddery red-orange I was hoping it was from the little bit on the sample card.
I was inspired to calculate the warp length I will need. My process is a little different in that I work backwards from the amount of yarn I have to the length of warp I can get from that.
Since I ordered three pounds of each color, and each pound is roughly 5600 yards, I have 16800 yards of yarn to play with.
Once again, the Warp and Weft Calculator from Haley Studio proved invaluable to these calculations.
My loom has a reed width of 45 or 46 inches. The maximum I care to go in the reed is about 44.5 inches. This will net me a woven width (after shinkage) of about 36 inches.
Weft calculation image courtesy of Haley's Studio
The part I really need to know about now is the warp measurement.
Rus kaftan warp calculation image courtesy of Haley Studio.
So, I will measure out 1422 warp ends at approximately 11 1/2 yards long. This will net me approximately 9 yards of 36 inch wide cloth. Plenty of cloth for the kaftan and some yardage left over for future projects.
