Description

What is Lace Weight Mulberry Silk Yarn?

Pure mulberry silk yarn is ideal for warm season garments. Cool to touch and skin-friendly this silk will make any craft a dazzling piece.  Use this silk yarn by itself or ply it with wool, alpaca, linen, or other natural fibers.

The yarn is wound on spools to prevent tangling.

Yarn content: 100% mulberry silk yarn.

Yarn count: 48/2 Nm*.

* Nm stands for Number Metric. 1 Nm means 1000 meters of single strand per 1 kilogram or 1 meter in 1 gram of yarn. The second number designates the number of strands or plies. This yarn is 48/2 Nm. The number 48 indicates that 48 meters of single-ply yarn are in 1 gram. This yarn is 2-ply meaning that 24 meters are in 1 gram of this yarn.

As a reference point, a sewing thread is 200/2 Nm. This yarn is much thicker but is still a lace yarn.

The photo below compares this yarn with a finer 60/2 Nm mulberry silk yarn with a yarn count of 60/2 Nm and a cotton embroidery thread.

Close-up photo of 48/2 Nm silk yarn:

Best uses 48/2 Nm Mulberry Silk Yarn

Crafts and Gifts

This yarn can be used for lace knitting and crochet, weaving, embroidery, and other art projects. Garments made with this yarn are very soft and cool to touch with an excellent drape and brilliant luster. Perfect for Spring and Summer garments.

Below is a photo of a crocheted mulberry silk scarf.

The cardigans below are for children of about 4′ – 4’3″ high. Each cardigan requires 5 spools.

 

Silk Lace Knitting Projects

Plying Mulberry Silk Yarn with other Fibers

This yarn is ideal for adding to wool or alpaca yarns for knitting, machine knitting, weaving, or crocheting. It adds a silky sheen to your woolen project and keeps the wool from stretching.

Silk comes in fine filaments that are extremely strong and stretch-resistant. When plied with alpaca or wool yarns, it stabilizes it and prevents stretching.

I ply silk with my hand-spun lace-weight Rambouillet yarn for the lace garments. I incorporate Shetland gossamer patterns into the garments I produce.

When adding silk to wool yarns, you can twist them on a spinning wheel or simply knit two yarns together as two parallel strands without twisting. Both methods produce excellent results.

This particular order ships from China. Each color lot is dyed individually. Delivery time is two-to-three weeks. Please purchase enough yarn from the same lot to avoid color variations. Please contact me with any questions.

Kimberly