Single-Use Plastic Tapestry scrap yarn remnant ribbon

remnant ribbon

plant material

This handwoven pillow filled with a plush down

machine knit strand

24" x 6" spacing or sett is 3/4" and 1 1/18" with the option of working with all 31 pegs or going as narrow as 3

Single-Use Plastic Tapestry scrap yarn remnant ribbonThis was made on my 5' Cranbrook loom. It has 700 plastic bags from many large retailers such as CVS, Acme, Arnold's Bread, Scott toilet tissue, and any other scrap plastic I could find. These bags were collected and made into plarn (plastic yarn). The warp is turquoise on the left and right and cream in the center. I wove many different bread bags on the base of the tapestry and moved into less color using white and the texture of the bag bottoms to