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forrestwife Posted - 04/30/2009 : 07:00:44 AM
In this weeks knitters review you referred to the yarn a single-ply.
Ply refers to two or more strands twisted to make a single strand, 2 ply, 3 ply etc.
One strand of yarn, unplied is called a single

blessings,
robyn
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Chemcats Posted - 04/30/2009 : 12:48:04 PM
And we can really muddy the soup and talk about the British use of the word "ply" and "worsted" LOL, gotta love it!

Welcome Robin! Pull up a chair, have some tea!

Meribeth
mertle Posted - 04/30/2009 : 11:05:53 AM
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Originally posted by Clara

Here at KR I used the more common term "single ply" simply for the sake of being understood by a wider audience of knitting readers.
Yep, I'd be one of those wide knitters that wide audience. (Ahem.) If you had used "singles" in the article, I'd have thought it was a typo. Learn something new every day!

Welcome to KR, Robyn! We learn (and teach) an awful lot here. And we love it! Glad to have you!

Marilyn
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Clara Posted - 04/30/2009 : 10:41:19 AM
Hi Robyn, and welcome to Knitter's Review! As Shelia notes, a single strand of twisted fibers is technically called a "singles." When I wrote about this kind of yarn in the most recent Spin-Off, I did refer to it as such. Here at KR I used the more common term "single ply" simply for the sake of being understood by a wider audience of knitting readers.

But to continue the mystery even further, if you un-twist a commercially spun singles, you'll often find more than one ply in there. They do this to help stabilize and strengthen something that is innately not all that stable.

The world of yarn is quite interesting, isn't it? Shelia, save some of that free-form knitting for me.

Clara
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Shelia Posted - 04/30/2009 : 10:02:36 AM
Actually, if we're getting excrutiatingly technical here, the strand of spun, unplied yarn is a "singles". It's one of those terms that has an s on the end even if you're only referring to one strand.

Hmmm - did I just have a small attack of spinning-police-itis? I think I need to go off and do some free-form knitting to exorcize it.

Shelia
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