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Posted by Wooly on October 4, 2007, 8:35 am
Anastasia Luettecke wrote:
> I'm trying to decide if I want to do a particular pattern with some
> lovely 100% silk I picked up from my LYS the other day. The wpi measure
> on the cones is 2/60. Is Cebelia comparable? Somehow I think my stuff
> is probably thinner than that. I may need to just buck up and pick a
> pattern (or design one) that would allow for some flexibility if I end
> up producing something too small. This silk is so thin, but so lovely
> that I can't wait to use it!
>
> Anastasia
>
> --trucking along in Latin, Old English, and two grad level writing/lit
> classes. May graduation, I hope!
>
> WIP: A Shetland shawl from Sharon Miller's book, the Magickal Earth
> Shawl from AGOL, Alpine Lace (I think that's the name) from AGOL, a
> men's sweater vest for my sweetie, and I just finished a Japanese lace
> sweater for myself. Now comes the hard part....disciplining myself
> enough to block it and sew it together!
Theoretically your 2/60 silk comes in at 30 meters per gram. How this
compares to the Cebelia I can only guess as Lacis doesn't show Cebelia
#40 available for sale and thus provides no yardage. An educated guess
suggests a 50g ball of Cebelia #40 will contain ~725yd, or 700m, which
may give 14m/g.
A direct comparison suggests that your silk is about half the size of
the Cebelia #40 BUT cotton is denser than silk, has to be spun more
tightly to hold together, and thus weighs more on a per-linear unit
measurement.
Best answer: Swatch, see how you like your blocked silk swatch.
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