@kelbournewoolens Education is a big part of what we do here at Kelbourne Woolens. We’ve been at this for 18+ years and have lots of knowledge about all things yarn, knitting, crochet, etc. Today Courtney is sharing all about yarn put-up! Questions? Feel free to ask in the comments below! 👇 #yarn #kelbournewoolens #knittingtutorial #crochettutorials #knittok ♬ original sound - Kelbourne Woolens
Video transcript: Hello everybody!
Today I'm going to tell you all about what yarn put-up is and what it means.
So this is my beautiful pile of yarn. All of these yarns are in a different physical form. They all have their own special way of coming out of the mill, off of the machinery, and into the yarn store and then into your hands.
Each of these different shapes requires a different set of equipment at the mill. And when you make yarn, you get to decide often how you want it or you're limited to what the mill can do for you.
I'm going to tell you what they are all called.
Starting with the first, this is a cone. It’s wound from a machine onto this cone. And usually this happens at the point at which the yarn is plied, if it's plied, or spun. You can have a big cone. You can have a little cone. You can have a little wee itty bitty bitty cone. These are all cones.
Once the yarn is spun, plied, (if it's plied) and put onto the cone, this can be the end of the process. This can get shipped out. If you weave, you often work with cones. There's more yarn on these. You can have like a one kilo cone, a five pound cone, a half kilo cone. Oh look, another cone. This is a hefty cone. This is also a cone. This label tells you stuff about it. Anyways, cones of yarn. Big, little.
You can knit, if you knit, or whatever you're doing, you can just work right off the cone. This is kind of a hybrid cone.
Next, you can take these cones and you can wind off amounts, usually by weight of yarn into, this is a hank. This is not a skein.
This is called a hank. These are hanks. These are twisted hanks. This is a folded hank. These are hanks. The yarn is taken off of the cone onto a thing that goes like this. It's wound out in a specified length, like this. And then it gets twisted, like this, into your twisted hank. You buy it like this. And then you have to wind it into a ball. This is a hand-wound ball.
Somebody took the hank, someone held it like this so it didn't tangle, and someone else wound it into a ball. The folded hank is basically the same as this, but it's not twisted. It's just folded. So they take it like this, they fold it, and then it's wrapped with a band.
Then these are all skeins. These are skeins of yarn. They're different kinds of skeins. This is called a pull skein because you pull the yarn from the center. This is a pull skein. This does not need to be wound into a ball. Like a cone, you can just knit right off of this. These are bullet skeins.
Sometimes these are called five-point skeins, three-point skeins, I don't know, one, two, like it makes this little pattern.
These are balls of yarn. This is also a ball. You can just knit right off of these. These require an extra step of manufacturing from this. So this is one step, two steps, three steps. Every step along the way has a cost attached to it because it's a different piece of equipment.
So you have the piece of equipment that puts it onto a cone, then you have the piece of equipment that makes it into a hank. So you either go from here to here or you go from here to here. It doesn't go here, here, here. Cone to ball, cone to hank, okay? Hanks are great if you are going to buy yarn and dye it. It's also just a little more cost effective.
These are very popular in Europe. These are very popular in the U.S. These are very popular in the U.S. I don't know how Europeans feel about these. You can tell me.
This is a cake. Which is a kind of put up, similar to this. You would just work right off of this, either from the inside or the outside. This is also a cake. This is one that was wound from a hank on a swift with a ball winder. And this was done at a mill as a part of manufacturing. This was the put up that that manufacturer chose, you know? So these are all the options.
Cone, hank, skein, ball.
Questions? Let us know in the comments below.
