Type 49055 - Baby Yak Cloud 49059

Type 49055 - Baby Yak Cloud 49059Fibre Content 42% Baby Alpaca 13% 18. 5 Mic Merino 10% Yak 35% Silk Meterage 400 meters per 50grm hank 50g hank Attributes Luxury Lace Gauge: 3mm 25sts & 46 rows Akin to Cloud 800, but with the addition of some Yak and merino, this yarn is like little grey clouds. The Yak provides the natural grey base, and colours dyed on top look rich and sophisticated. The yarn takes the dye well, and colours will spread on this yarn. Like the cloud 800, you can

The stitches are neat

speckles work well on this yarn

It sucks up the dye and speckles work really well on the non-black sections

300 meters per 100g hank

This yarn is a singles so care needs to be taken if hand painting or using a technique that uses a lot of abrasion against the fibres as it may pill

colours are slightly muted

but it would need to be knitted on a tight gauge

See here for details

This would be wonderful for accessories and sweaters

Our Bluefaced Leicester version of Platinum DK

but consideration needs to be given whether the weaving process may cause a lot of friction and therefore fluff up the yarn

Pack of 25 x 20g hanks