{"id":24818,"date":"2025-05-17T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/?page_id=24818"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:15:35","slug":"fs-07-lichen-tunic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/fs-07-lichen-tunic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichen Tunic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Terry Mattison, Portland Handweavers Guild, Longview, WA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Winner: Best Garment Construction, sponsored by Eugene Weavers Guild
The Virginia Harvey Award for Best Use of Color in a Woven Work, sponsored by Seattle Weavers Guild<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name\/Description:<\/strong> Lichen Tunic
Made For?:<\/strong> Woman
Size:<\/strong> XXL
Fabric Construction:<\/strong> Woven
Fabric Construction – Other:<\/strong>
Woven Structure:<\/strong> Dornick twill, 8 shafts. Parallel countermarche loom (Louet Delta)
Yarn Details and SETT: <\/strong>Warp: 2\/18 Wool\/silk blend (80% wool20% silk). Weft: 2\/30 Merino woolSett at 35 epi
Handspun Details:
Stitches:<\/strong>
Special Treatments:<\/strong> Yarn dyed by myself. I used Lanaset acid dyes: 3 primary colors and black to create a palette of 14 colors. I varied the depth of shade for a few of them. I wound the warp bouts into two groups: the wider bouts and the narrow framing bouts and layed them out to paint them before setting the dyes. The spring green bouts were vat dyed.
Textile Finishing: <\/strong>I carefully wet-finished\/slightly fulled in my front-loading washing machine on the delicate cycle. Then I placed them in the dryer on low heat for a few minutes until slightly damp. Lastly gave them a good press and hung overnight.
Textile Challenges: <\/strong>The warp was slightly sticky\/fuzzy. I had sampled on my table loom and a more open sett did not produce the nicely fulled fabric I was was going for. So I had to deal with that for several yards!
Garment Construction:<\/strong> I love this pattern as it has so many options for future modifications but for a designer pattern I found the construction wanting. There was no facing or finishing where the collar meets the body pieces and the collar itself called for thin hems around. I found myself figuring out how to line the whole thing which was quite the exercise! I really should’ve made a practice piece first! I did lengthen the front of the garment as well.
Lining:<\/strong> The lining is purchased silk habotai that I had to dye because I couldn\u2019t find the right shade of green anywhere. Pattern called for interfacing at center front pieces which I used. I also used a lightweight woven interfacing in the collar as it was a floppy mess without.
Special Features:<\/strong>
Pattern:<\/strong> Butterick B5891, Katherine Tilton
Garment Challenges: <\/strong>I had to piece the collar as it was a long serpentine thing, to be cut cross grain. It was an odd shaped piece and I didn’t have enough fabric to get it cut and seamed so the center collar seam would match the center back seam exactly. I was super bummed out about that. Creating new pattern pieces for the lining was something I had to do, that was a bit of a learning experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terry Mattison, Portland Handweavers Guild, Longview, WA Winner: Best Garment Construction, sponsored by Eugene Weavers GuildThe Virginia Harvey Award for Best Use of Color in a Woven Work, sponsored by Seattle Weavers Guild Name\/Description: Lichen TunicMade For?: WomanSize: XXLFabric Construction: WovenFabric Construction – Other:Woven Structure: Dornick twill, 8 shafts. Parallel countermarche loom (Louet Delta) Yarn… Read More »Lichen Tunic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24818","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26313,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24818\/revisions\/26313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anwgconference.org\/archive\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}