Skein #21 Silk Extra Fine Smooth Yarn

Image 1: Fiber Sample Image 2: Yarn Skein Image 3: Yarn Detail

Fiber

Silk

Type

Dyed bleached tussah top

Reason for choice of this sample

This cochineal dyed fiber has a beautiful color, although a fair amount of noils.

Source

Preparation for spinning

Divide and loosen the top

Equipment used

Flyer spinning wheel

Type of spinning

Short forward draft

Direction of Twist

Z

Number of plies

1

Finishing

Washed and blocked

Suggested uses

Warp or weft for lightweight garment fabrics such as for a blouse or in a plied yarn for knit or crochet lace. A plied yarn has a soft hand and the variation in the hand-dyed fiber gives subtle highlights to the finished fabric. This fiber was used in a similar yarn as weft for a shawl.

Notes

Maximum 54 points

Examiner 1: 54

Examiner 2: 54

Everybody loves this one, I'm sure the naturally dyed color didn't hurt. Examiner 1 even noted that I was able to deal with the less-than-spectacular fiber prep. A friend of mine dyed this, so I was working with combed top but one that hadn't been reprocessed after dying like the commercial stuff.