How many ply is aran yarn

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Spinners pull fibres from a disordered mass into a single, long thread. This thread is usually plied with one or more others to make up a yarn of the desired weight. This way, the spinner or spinning machine can make one type of thread but multiple weights of yarn. Historically, this was a good way to describe weight, as plies were fairly uniform. Today, a single ply yarn can be a very fine laceweight or a bulk sweater yarn like Icelandic Lopi, and a DK can have 10 or 20 plies in it.

Plies have remained as yarn weight names, particularly in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, even though the meaning is no longer as clear. Lace yarns are often knit on larger needles to create a more airy effect so it's important to find the right weight of yarn as well as getting gauge. Sock weight is a very useful term but not a fixed standard.

If you need a heavier yarn that looks kind of delicate, you could use Aran. Sometimes this term gets mixed up with the original Aran sweaters. These so called cable knit sweaters owe their name to the Aran Islands in Ireland and have nothing to do with standard weight of wool. But you can, of course, knit a beautiful cable sweater with Aran yarn! What are you waiting for? If you like to get updates from Yarnplaza. Do you have a question for our blog?

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