Article Info

Article Title
Plying for Stretch
Author
Kara Perpelitz
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