mulberry silk wedding shawl

Description

I don’t mean to infer by the name of this shawl that you can only wear it if you’re getting married, it was just that it struck me as a perfect shawl for a bride!

The shawl is a generous size at over 2 metres long and 44cm wide and can be worn in a variety of ways.  It is made from 100% mulberry silk yarn in a crochet lace stitch.  The yarn is hand dyed in small batches and is a silver colour overall, but has a natural variegation of shades from almost white to grey.  The yarn dyer’s name for the shade is ‘Dolphin in my Whirlpool’, which is brilliantly apt – when I was working with the yarn, it really did glisten with multiple silver shades that looked just like the slick of a dolphin’s skin as it twists in the water!

As with all silk yarns, there is a lovely silvery sheen to this yarn, particularly when under stronger light – very pretty.  The stitch pattern I’ve used creates ripples and waves throughout the length of the shawl and because of the lovely light nature of the yarn, it falls is lovely soft folds; even on the edges of the shawl, which are perfectly straight – silk moves with an elegance all of its own.