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What Makes Fingerlakes Yarn Special?
Fingerlakes Yarns are SOFT
The fleeces used in the manufacturing of Fingerlakes
Yarns have been carefully selected for their quality and soft
handle.
Fingerlakes Yarns are ALL- AMERICAN
Fingerlakes Yarns are spun in a small mill in
the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. They are crafted
with pride with U.S. wool.
Fingerlakes Yarns are PRE-WASHED
Most mills do not take the time to pre-wash yarns
before they leave the mill. All Fingerlakes Yarns (except the
Un-Spun line) are presented in their finished form.
Fingerlakes yarns are REASONABLY PRICED
Compare the quality, softness and yardage of Fingerlakes
Yarns with other domestic and imported yarns, then compare the
price. Now add value to quality, softness and yardage and you
come out the winner.
Some words about Fingerlakes Woolen
Mill
Fingerlakes Woolen Mill is located in the Finger Lakes region
of New York, just north of Ithaca. It is the only US mill that
manufactures angora yarns for the handknitting market in addition
to it's wool and wool/silk yarns. Fingerlakes produces carded
wool and wool/angora blends for handspinning, felting and other
craft uses. Fingerlakes Un-spun™ is the popular brand of
pencil roving, also known to some as the "yarn" the
Icelandics use in their famous yoke sweaters.
If you would like to learn more about how
yarn is made visit our step-by-step description page.
Complete Fingerlakes Color Card - send $6
For wholesale inquiries, please e-mail
us for details.
Fingerlakes SOFT WOOL Yarns
These are 2 and 3-ply worsted weight yarns. Fingerlakes
uses Delaine Merino, Rambouillet Merino, and Finn and Merino-cross
wool, which are the finest grades of wool grown. All the wool
is US produced. Wool yarns take on the character from the breed
of sheep used to grow the wool. Start with fine grade wools and
you have softness "built in." Fine wools cost more but
they knit-up nicer, look better and feel great (no itchy feel
). We offer Fingerlakes "Soft Wool" in natural and dyed
colors plus five hand-dyed variegated colors. Color
Card
Specifications
2-ply: 4oz. skeins, 295 yards per skein; #6 or 7 needles, 5
stitches per inch; 5 skeins per sweater - $8.00 per skein. Hand-dyed
$13.00.
2-ply sweater skein (hand-dyed only): 20oz. skein, 1,475 yards
per skein; 5 stitches per inch; 1 skein per sweater - $62 per
skein.
3-ply: 4 oz. skeins, 210 yards per skein; #8 needles, 4 stitches
per inch; 6-7 skeins per sweater - $7.50per skein. Hand-dyed $13.00
Fingerlakes ANGORA LUXURY
Angora comes from the long-haired angora rabbit (not angora
goats - that's mohair). It is wonderfully soft, elegant and luxurious.
Ounce for ounce, it is seven times warmer than sheep's wool. Angora
Luxury , a 50/50 blend with soft wool, will dress up any garment,
giving it instant glamour and a feeling of pure luxury. Fingerlakes
uses only plucked angora which ensures that the length of the
angora fiber is significant enough to stay part of the yarn and
not shed. Color Card
Specification
2-ply: 2oz. skeins; 180 yards per skein; #6 or 7 needles, 5
stitches per inch; 8-9 skeins per sweater - $15.00 per skein.
Fingerlakes UN-SPUN™
What is Un-Spun™? In spinning mills Un-Spun™
is called pencil roving. In Iceland, it is called plotulopi, or
lopi for short. It is the form yarn takes just before spinning.
In Iceland, knitters began using pencil roving as a knitting "yarn"
in the 19th century for their beautiful yoke sweaters. Un-Spun™
principal characteristic is that the fibers have not been spun,
or twisted around themselves.
Unlike the Icelandic product which tends to be a coarse wool,
Fingerlakes' Un-Spun™ is made of very soft, high crimp wool.
This not only results in a super soft feel but because of the
crimp you get superior strength with a lighter weight strand.
This gives the knitter more options in using Un-Spun™.
Un-Spun™ may be used for both hand and machine knitting
and crocheting, weaving, and spinning. It can be used to build
heavier "yarns" by working with two, three, or more
stands, and this can be done with the same color or by combining
colors for a unique effect. It can even be used with spun yarn
for a unique texture effect. Although not as strong as spun yarn,
once you add your stitches you increase it's strength as the fibers
wrap around and lock onto other fibers, yet maintain a soft, lofty
garment.
Un-Spun™ comes in 23 solid colors of 100% wool (Color
Card), 9 rainbow colors (three colors in a repeating sequential
order - pictured above) of 100% wool that result in unique garments
(Color Card), and 5
colors of a blend of 60% wool and 40% silk (Color
Card).
Specifications
1-ply at approximately 2,200 yards per pound (normal use usually
calls for using two or three strands together); for 2 strands:
#9 needles: 4 stitches per inch or #10.5: 3.5 stitches per inch.
Approximately one pound packages can make one sweater. There are
three Un-Spun™ cheeses per package. Priced by weight at $25
per pound. You may purchase single slices at $11 each.
Un-Spun™ Rainbow colors are packed at approximately 1lb.4oz.
to 1lb. 6oz. with four cheeses per bag. Priced by weight at $29
per pound.You may purchase single slices at $12.50 each.
Un-Spun™ Silk colors are packed at approximately one pound
with three cheeses per bag. Priced by wight at $45 per pound or
$17.90 per slice.
Sweaters Kits
Kits and Projects
Carded Fibers
Custom Mill Work
Fingerlakes Woolen Mill provides custom processing of fibers
from others. From carding to spinning, we can turn your fibers
into valuable products or just make it easier for you to use them.
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Information
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