Tablet Braid Scarf

About this Design: This pattern is inspired by examples of Viking-Style tablet weaving fabrics. Vikings produced beautiful fabrics by this method which they used to decorate their clothes, used as belts and as headbands. This scarf is a stylized cable pattern similar to a common motif found in Viking tablet weaving.


Skills Required:

• Working with cables
• Working with charts
• Working an icord
• Increasing and decreasing
• Blocking

Finished Size (blocked): 8.5”/21.59 cm wide by 57.25 (88.25)”/145.42 (223.52) cm long

Other Tools:

• Cable needle (2)
• Pompoms, fake fur 2”/5 cm (2) - optional
• Glow line tape (to mark current row on charts/instructions).
• Fine cotton thread in contrasting colour for life-lines
• Tapestry needle
• Tpins

Yarn: 705 (900) yards/645 (822) meters of wool DK weight yarn that knits up to 5 sts/inch.

Shown In: Bare Naked Wools ‘Kent DK’, (300 yards/274 meters; 60% Merino wool, 40% Romney wool; 4.0 oz/115 grams per skein). 3 skeins in White Sand, size long and 2 Wild, Wild Wool fake fur pompoms 2”/5 cm, olive.

Note: This pattern is also available in the Northern Landscapes, part 2 ebook.