Know the fibre before the yarn
48 fibre sheets — where it comes from, how to recognise it, what it is good for, and its physical facts with their source. The engine consumes yarn only through your swatch; here is the story.
Translated from Italian. A native knitter has not reviewed this translation yet.
Man-made
Wood
Acetate
The artificial silk with an elegant drape: it is born from cellulose but behaves like a melt fibre, lustrous and fluid. Not very elastic an…
Cotton seed
Cupro / Bemberg (cotton linter)
Vegetable silk: a regenerated cellulose filament made from cotton residues, silky, cool and smooth-running. It has no elasticity at all and…
Eucalyptus
Lyocell / Tencel
Cellulose reborn the clean way: soft, lustrous and with a fluid fall, it is the most eco-friendly version of viscose. It has little elastic…
Beech
Modal (from beech)
The refined version of viscose: very soft, fluid and with a lovely understated sheen, very cool on the skin. It has little elastic memory a…
Brown seaweed
Seaweed (Seacell)
A lyocell enriched with brown seaweed: soft, cool and with a fluid drape that falls straight. It has little stretch and almost no memory, s…
Wood
Viscose / Rayon
The fibre that pours like a liquid: lustrous, cool and very fluid, it takes colour brilliantly and drapes beautifully. In exchange it has n…