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- Article Title
- Drape or Disaster
- Author
- Meagan Condon
- Issue date
- Autumn 2023
- Issue number
- 42
- Issue topic
- Drape
- Description
- Often spinners think that underspinning or underplying are the way to add drape to their yarn, but this article warns that those options won’t work. Instead, you can use other ways to add drape to your yarn. This article examines ply twist in Merino and alpaca and compares each option by knitting swatches and simulating wear using a mortar and pestle to abrade the samples.
- Article topic list
- alpaca, Merino, twist, drape, experimenting
