Skein #20 Flax Fine, Medium or Thick Even Three Ply Yarn

Image 1: Fiber Sample Image 2: Yarn Skein Image 3: Yarn Detail

Fiber

Flax

Type

Strick

Reason for choice of this sample

This line flax is easily available

Source

Preparation for spinning

Combed with a wool card and wrapped in a towel

Equipment used

Wool card, flyer spinning wheel, drop spindle

Type of spinning

Short forward draft

Direction of Twist

S/Z

Number of plies

3

Finishing

Washed and blocked

Suggested uses

This yarn can be used for rug weft or for coarse fabrics like sacking. It should be sized before using as warp. It can also be used as household or garden twine. The poor quality of available fiber limits the uses for handspun linen yarns.

Notes

Maximum 54 points

Examiner 1: 35

Examiner 2: 36

Pretty much the same as before, even about being balanced. I'm wondering if the problem is that it was spun in California and inspected in North Carolina. I've seen stuff hang straight downtown but turn an hour later in the other side of the city's fog. Examiner 1 was hoping I'd do a fine 3-ply but by the time I got to this, I was running out of both time and flax. I had to re-do several of these skeins in addition to many samples. And I had nearly a kilo of it to start with.