Yarns
Yarn sheets with the numbers that matter for buying and substituting: composition, count, metres per 100 g, the plausible gauge — every value with its source. What a yarn actually knits to is your swatch's business, never the sheet's.
Translated from Italian. A native knitter has not reviewed this translation yet.
Regenerated cashmere blend (generic example)
Nm 2/28 · 1531 yd/3.5 oz · Fine
TEACHING CASE. Regenerated cashmere recovers offcuts and end-of-life garments and pulls them back into fibre for new yarn (the Prato tradit…
Mercerised cotton 8/2 (generic example)
Ne 2/8 · 740 yd/3.5 oz · Medium
Combed, mercerised cotton (treated with caustic soda, which swells the fibre): the result is greater lustre, strength and colour take-up. S…
Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia Cashwool
Nm 2/48 · 2625 yd/3.5 oz · Lace
Cone yarn in pure extrafine combed merino (worsted), designed for fine knitwear by machine and by hand. As a single strand it is a lace wei…