KNOW YOUR YARNS – SERIES

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We started off India Yarn Circle community on Instagram with “Yarn” as the theme for the month. We would love to elaborate more on that as we had many queries from rookie makers asking us about these magical things we call yarn!!

Were you as astonished as us to learn that the word “yarn” does not mean “wool”? 

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Why the surprise, you ask?? Well the place where we come from , the place where we picked up our craft forms uses the word ” wool” to loosely define any yarn that we knitters and crocheters use.

So we ask the basic question –

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, or ropemaking. Any form of long thread used for any kind of craft is largely qualified as yarn.

Imagine our wonder when we learnt that there are different categories of yarn!

Yarn can be classified broadly as

Animal based

Plant based

Synthetic or Man-made

Within each category they can be further sorted by yarn weights such as

And then there is TEXTURE!! Oh my God, textures!!

Yarns that are velvety, yarns that have feather like features, boucle yarns (yarns with loops), yarns with tiny pompons at regular intervals, yarns with strand of lurex to give it the glitter and sparkle that makes our eyes go wide!! And not to mention yarn made from tshirt!!!!

Yarns come in varied thicknesses, textures and not to mention colours. A large pallete for us to work with, for our yarn crafts!!

Is your head reeling under all these buzz words?? Fear not for we will be back to take you though this yarn maze and we will emerge on the other side, hopefully with a better understanding of the yarns we use.

Watch this space for more information about the yarns.

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