100% Merino Wool
190m/50g (208yards)
Needle size: 3 - 3.5 mm
Handwash, do not tumble dry, do not iron.
This is a coned yarn, with yarn oil still in the yarn, is ideally suited to machine knitters and weavers. A machine knitted garment or woven cloth needs to be scoured (washed) and finished first to remove the yarn oil before being worn.
During wet finishing always scour twice to remove all processing oils from the garments. The first scour will remove the oil and the second will create the desired soft woollen handle.
The first scour should be at 40C. Ratio of water to material at 15 litres to 1 kilo of dry garments. A quality detergent designed for fibre lubricant removal should be added at 5%-10% on weight of knitwear.
Add clean water for the second scour/mill at 40C, using the same detergent at 2.5-5% on weight of dry garments, and run the machine until the desired soft woollen handle is obtained. Drain, rinse and spin using fresh, clean water. A specialist wool softener may be added after the second scour. Fill with fresh clean water at 40C.
Apply softener at 0.5%-1% on weight of dry garments. Drain and spin, do not rinse.
Most professional machine knitters use trial and error to customise their own secret scouring/finishing recipes. I take no liability for undesired results whatsoever.
