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Regenerated cashmere blend (generic example)
Cashmere recovered and pulled back into fibre, often blended with wool: a circular economy for a luxury fibre.
TEACHING CASE. Regenerated cashmere recovers offcuts and end-of-life garments and pulls them back into fibre for new yarn (the Prato tradition applied to cashmere). The fibres get shorter with every mechanical cycle: shorter staple -> more halo, less strength and more pilling than virgin cashmere. That is why it is often blended with wool to restore strength. The numbers here are a REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLE of a regenerated cashmere blend, to be confirmed on a real product.
Translated from Italian. A native knitter has not reviewed this translation yet.
Composition
| Cashmere | 70 % | estimate |
|---|---|---|
| Merino Wool | 30 % | estimate |
Count and consumption
| Count | Nm 2/28 → Nm 14 |
|---|---|
| Length per weight | 1531 yd / 3.5 oz |
| Put-up | 1.8 oz |
| Spinning | woolen · S |
| Care | cold hand or wool wash; regenerated fibre tends to pill in the first weeks |
Plausibility — a guard, never a gauge
These numbers say what is plausible for this yarn. Your swatch, washed and measured, is the only truth the chart is built on.
| Property | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CYC category | 2 | estimate |
| expected gauge (sts / 4 in) | 22.5–26.5 | estimate |
| knitting needles | US 3–5 (3.25–3.75 mm) | estimate |
| wraps per inch | 13 | estimate |
| machine gauge | 5–8 | estimate |
| linkable | False | estimate |
Substitution
Regenerated cashmere is NOT interchangeable with virgin cashmere of the same Nm: short staple -> more halo/pilling, less strength. Substitute only after a swatch, and expect different behaviour.
virgin cashmere/wool of the same count ONLY as an approximation: not equivalent (regenerated fibre has more halo and less strength)