Article Info
- Article Title
- Plying for Stretch
- Issue date
- Winter 2016
- Issue number
- 15
- Issue topic
- Plying
- Description
This article seeks to answer some of the following questions: Does adding plies to the yarn increase or decrease elasticity and memory? Does a certain ply make the resulting yarn and fabric feel softer or coarser? Is that even a possibility? Are the results uniform over different fiber types, or do different plies do different things for different fibers? The author experiments with Merino and Romney to start providing some answers. The article compares singles yarn, 2-ply, 3-ply, and 4-ply and tests the elasticity of each.
- Article topic list
- plying, elasticity, experimenting, 2-ply, 3-ply, 4-ply and beyond
