This pattern was inspired by a lovely light Fortuny light fixture that illuminated the stairwell of the palazzo in Venice where my husband and I stayed.

This pattern is a bit more straight forward than it looks with most of the stitches being the usual suspects for increases and decreases.

While I used a handspun lace weight yarn of merino and tussah silk (50/50), any lace weight should work. I think it also would be fine in a heavier weight yarn.

There is a circular version of this shawl: Venetian Light Shawl: Circular.

My usual warning:
This pattern has not been tested knitted by anyone other than myself. Please let me know if you find any errors and I will post a new, corrected version.

Notes -

4-25-2019 - Row 49 appeared in both chart 1 and chart 2. The new version of the pattern has removed the extra row from chart 2.

5-04-19
Removed extra row 115 from chart 3a and chart 3b. New version of pattern has been posted.

5-30-2019

New version with V (knit into the front and back of stitch has been added to the key.

6-11-2019
Changed the formatting of repeats in charts 3a and 3b to be consistent with the other charts. Does not affect the actual knitting but hopefully makes the chart clearer.

8-22-2020
Removed extra knit stitch from row 159 in chart 3a.

8-23-2020
Changed k2tog at the end of row 241 to a knit.