At 09:33 AM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
I was emailing with someone (who may be on this list?) about her experiences with superwash sock yarn fulling...
My bet would be on someone in the company using regular wool to "cut" the mixture in the yarn and make it more economical. Especially with so few washings... Otoh, it could be a bad process.... that can happen too (incomplete stripping of the scales and/or not completing the chemical process that fills the scales and effectively glues 'em together - even chemical mix error before it gets to the mill). I don't know how you'd ever determine it unless it went to a lab for analysis (and how would you ever tell where the "bad" wool crept in..)? One reason why you need to be careful of sources. Cheapest isn't always the best - neither is most expensive necessarily a "hedge" against problems ;). Once I have a good reliable source I tend to stick with it even paying more to be sure.
Sometimes you eat the bear sometimes the bear eats you. I will say that anything that gets "hand-anything" treatment is more suspect in my book - unless *I'm* the hand-do-er. The more hands get in between the mill and you, the more chances there are of problems creeping in (not necessarily on purpose either..). I want handpainted yarns I feel much better doing it myself. The few things I have bought by artisans are about 50/50 on quality (imh experience). And that could just be my bad luck too.
How about a mis-mark by the company or someone pulling the wrong stock (even before the dyeing..)? I've seen it happen... I can think of a dozen ways that "superwash" could be something else without being a deliberate falsehood on the part of the manufacturer (or dyer) or anyone that had a purposeful role.
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