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Article Info

Article Title

A Balanced Look at Balanced Yarn

Author

Michelle Boyd

Issue date

Autumn 2020

Issue number

30

Issue topic

Basics

Description

What is a “balanced” yarn, and why do we want to spin one? This article investigates the pros and cons of plying to balance singles twist vs. plying to balance combined singles twist against ply twist.

Article topic list

twist, plying