Sunday 27 November 2011
Yarn Colour
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Colour:
Yarn may be worn undyed, or may be painted with natural or artificial dyes. Most yarns have a single consistent hue, but there is also a wide selection of variegated yarns:
heathered or tweed: yarn with flecks of dissimilar colored fiber
ombre: variegated yarn with light and dark shades of a single hue
Multi-colored: variegated yarn with two or more distinct hues (a "parrot colorway" might have green, yellow and red)
Self-striping: yarn dyed with lengths of color that will automatically create stripes in a knitted or crocheted object
Marled: yarn prepared from strands of different-colored yarn twisted mutually, from time to time in closely related hues.
