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Mar 05, 2010
Thick-and-Thin, Slubbed, Knot Yarns
What are slubs? " Slubs are thicker, less twisted areas in a basically thin, well-twisted singles yarn. It seems that when we are learning to spin we can only produce, to our dismay, slub yarn... Often slubby yarns are equated with handspun. Spinning mills try to approximate handspun with thick-and-thin yarns. Careful inspection of these commercial yarns reveals that the slubs occur with amazing regularity, and that they are uniform in size." For handspun yarns, slubs are naturally random and not so perfectly and equally sized. - source: Spinning Designer Yarns, Diane Varney
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CIAO by Lana GrossaFIBRE: 50% Superwash Merino, 50% Acrylic YARN WEIGHT: Super Chunky TENSION: 10x10cm (4"): 9 sts / 1 rows NEEDLES: 8 - 10 mm (US No.13-15) LENGTH: approx. 30 m / 36 yards BALL WEIGHT: 50g * machine wash | made in Italy |
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JEWEL
by Cascade FIBRE: 100% Peruvian Highland Wool YARN WEIGHT: Chunky TENSION: 1" =3.5 - 4.5 sts NEEDLES: 5 - 6 mm (US No. 8-9 ) LENGTH: approx. 132 m / 147 yds BALL WEIGHT: 100g * hand wash | made in Peru 
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ERBA by Lana Grossa FIBRE: 60% Cotton, 40% Polyamide YARN WEIGHT: Heavy Worsted TENSION: 10x10 (4"): 18 sts / 28 rows NEEDLES: 4.5 mm (US No.7) LENGTH: approx. 105 m / 112 yards BALL WEIGHT: 50g * hand wash | made in Italy |
