DESCRIPTION:
The Ambrotype Scarf is part of the evolution of my Tintype Collection, a group of designs that continues my work in the field of short-row pattern motifs. This body of work highlights the way color changing and gradient yarns move throughout a design. This design expands upon my knitting vocabulary, incorporating the use of the principles of mosaic knitting and slipped stitches to create a grid-like pattern without the use of stranding.

INSPIRATION:
This design was inspired by the work of Armondo Thomas “Mondo” Guerra, an American fashion designer who finished as runner-up on Season 8 of Project Runway. The specific design that influenced this pattern is a bold, graphic, black-and-white, op-art printed, sleeveless blouse that was featured in Episode 10 of the season. The complete work is bold and striking in both its conceptual statement and visual presence.

Ambrotype: also known as a collodion positive, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process invented by Frederick Scott Archer. Ambrotypes were deliberately underexposed negatives made by that process and optimized for viewing as positives instead. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Like the daguerreotype or the prints produced by a Polaroid camera, each is a unique original. The ambrotype was introduced in the 1850s, and in 1854, James Ambrose Cutting of Boston took out several patents relating to the process. During the 1860s it was superseded by the tintype, a similar photograph on thin black-lacquered iron, hard to distinguish from an ambrotype if under glass. The name ambrotype comes from Ancient Greek ἄμβροτος ambrotos, “immortal”, and τύπος typos, “impression”. Many ambrotypes were made by unknown photographers.

TECHNIQUES:
Techniques used in this design are garter and stockinette stitch involving both knitting and purling as well as the double stitch technique of forming short-row shapes. A continuous i-cord edge frames the entire work and slipped stitches create irregularly spaced linear columns along the vertical length of the scarf.

DIAGRAMS:
This pattern comes with instruction along with a detailed vector diagram for both color placement and knitting order.

SIZE:
Width: 26 cm (10.25”)
Length: 190 cm (75”)

YARN + YARDAGE:
MC: FREIA FINE HANDPAINT YARNS
Fiber Content: 100% Mulesing-Free Merino
Weight: Single Ply Fingering; 100g /3.53oz - 393m/430yds
Color Shown: Lucas
Total Yardage: 491m/537yds 1 shawl ball + 1 minikin

CC: POKAINU YARNS
Fiber Content: 100% Gotland Wool
Weight: 2-Ply Sport; 100g /3.5oz - 274m/300yds
Color Shown: Grisaille
Yardage: 384m/420yds 2 skeins