Article Info

Article Title
The Law of Diminishing Returns: A plying point of view
Author
Sylvia Becker
Issue date
Winter 2016
Issue number
15
Issue topic
Plying
Description
This article offers some guidelines for figuring out which variables in plying matter in a few typical contexts and which variables can be more fuss than they’re worth. It starts with a discussion of what is meant by a mathematically stable yarn and goes into the economics of plying. The author presents an experiment of using the same singles and plying them from 2-ply all the way to 6-ply and comparing the results. Then the author experiments with cable plying and creates several versions of cable-ply yarn with different ply combinations to compare those results.
Article topic list
plying, experimenting, 2-ply, 3-ply, 4-ply and beyond, cabled