Article Info
- Article Title
- Fine and Woollen
- Issue date
- Winter 2020
- Issue number
- 31
- Issue topic
- Warmth
- Description
This article discusses considerations if you want to spin a fine yarn with a woolen drafting method. It starts with why you might want to do this and how your fiber choice makes a difference in your results. It then goes through spinning samples using several fiber options: yak, vicuna, Merino, and BFL and what adjustments needed to be made for each fiber. The article ends with a discussion on which specific uses you might want for the projects you make out of these specific yarns.
- Article topic list
- wool, yak, BFL, Merino, fine, woolen, fiber considerations
