Wool Bases
Discover our bases, their quality, functions, and thread thickness.Understanding the different bases is essential to define the final properties of your work, such as resistance, texture, fabric appearance, and drape.
Fingering Sock
It's Inès Green's favorite base! The fingering sock is versatile, durable, and extra soft. It's perfect for knitting all sorts of projects, sweaters or accessories, and socks with its nylon content.
It pairs perfectly with our mohair & silk yarn. The colors on this base are brighter and deeper.
Category: fingering
Composition: 75% merino wool, 25% nylon
Needles: 2.5 to 3.5 mm
Square footage: 425 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches = 10 cm
Fingering Extra Fine
It's the softest base in our range of fingering yarns! It's ideal and very pleasant for knitting large pieces like cardigans, sweaters, and vests, as well as shawls.
Its shiny thread makes colors vibrant. Its softness is ideal for small knits. Light and rosy shades stand out more orange on this base.
Category: fingering
Composition: 100% Merino SW 19.5 micron
Needles: 2.5 to 3.5 mm
Square footage: 425 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches = 10 cm
Fingering Soft
The fingering soft base, very popular, is versatile, durable and soft. It is ideal for making pullovers and cardigans with cables that it will enhance thanks to its well-rounded thread.
The fingering soft is the thickest of our fingering bases. It's a warm and comfortable yarn. The color rendering is a bit more matte.
Category: fingering
Composition: 85% merino wool, 15% nylon
Needles: 3 to 4 mm
Square footage: 400 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches = 10 cm
Single
It consists of a single strand of non-twisted, round wool, which provides a lot of softness, sweetness, and comfort.
It is ideal for knitting shawls, showcasing lace stitches. We love knitting it double with a Mohair & silk yarn for soft, supple sweaters with a beautiful drape.
Category: fingering
Composition: 100% merino wool
Needles: 3 to 3.5 mm
Square footage: 366 square meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches = 10 cm
Fingering Comet
Sparkle up your life with the comète fingering! It's the sparkly version of our fingering sock yarn. Its light golden and subtle thread will highlight your projects.
Yarn suitable for socks, which is perfect for all types of knitting.
Category: fingering
Composition: 75% merino wool, 20% nylon, 5% stellina
Needles: 2.5 to 3.5 mm
Square footage: 400 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches = 10 cm
Fingering Yak Tibet
This luxurious yarn makes a stunning gray base thanks to its composition containing Yak, which makes the colors more intense and very deep.
Soft and slightly shiny, it enhances colors with a rich and intense look. The yak is comparable to the softness of cashmere with impeccable stitch definition and a beautiful drape.
Category: fingering
Composition: 60% Merino wool, 20% Yak, 20% Silk
Needles: 2.5 to 3.5 mm
Square footage: 366 square meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches = 10 cm
BFL Silk
This is a magnificent blend of fibers: silk and Bluefaced Leicester combine perfectly thanks to their natural luster and the length of the BFL fibers. This yarn is particularly soft, with a beautiful drape. The colors are intense and luminous.
It is ideal for shawls, accessories, and clothing.
Category: fingering
Composition: 55% Bluefaced Leicester sw, 45% Silk
Needles: 2.5 to 3.5 mm
Square footage: 400 meters for 100 gr
Sample: –
Merino Cotton
A perfect base for summer tops. The mérino cotton combines the lightness of cotton with the sweetness and elasticity of mérino.
This base makes colors softer and lighter because cotton absorbs less dye than wool. This yarn can be knitted alone or doubled.
Category: fingering
Composition: 50% Merino wool, 50% cotton
Needles: 2.5 to 4 mm
Square footage: 400 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches = 10 cm
Mohair & Silk
Of incredible softness, this hairy yarn is shiny, it is perfect for being knitted double with a fingering yarn or double by holding two mohair and silk yarns together, for light and warm clothes at the same time.
The kid mohair brings a delicate and soft effect to the work, creating sweaters with irresistible charm and coziness.
Category: lace
Composition: 64% kid mohair, 36% silk
Needles: 2.5 to 4.5 mm
Square footage: 420 square meters for 50 gr
Sample: 32/34 stitches = 10 cm
Mérino Tencel
The favorite base for everyone's summer tops! This luminous and silky thread with extreme softness is perfect for the pretty drapes of light clothing for the warm seasons.
The tencel has a magical power that makes this thread extremely soft and shiny, and very comfortable on the skin.
Category: Sport
Composition: 50% superwash merino, 50% tencel
Needles: 3.5 to 4 mm
Square footage: 333 square meters for 100 gr
Sample: 26 stitches = 10 cm
Sport Suri Alpaca
A pretty rustic thread while keeping its softness. It is particularly popular in Scandinavian countries.
The color rendering is matte and more muted with its blend of suri alpaca and pure mérinos wool. The speckles are diffused over this base. The knitted fabric retains its shape perfectly while offering a nice drape.
Category: Sport
Composition: 50% Suri Alpaca, 50% Non-Superwash Merino Wool
Needles: 3.5 to 4 mm
Square footage: 300 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 28 stitches – 40 rows = 10 cm with 3 mm needle
Sport Mérino
This yarn is ideal for sweaters, quick to knit, and lightweight. Once dyed, it looks really stunning in a skein: the twist is clean, and the colors are vibrant, intense, and bright.
It is ideal for knitting cables with its pretty round yarn.
Category: Sport
Composition: 100% Merino Wool sw
Needles: 3.5 to 4 mm
Measurement: 300 meters for 50 gr
Sample:
28 stitches – 40 rows = 10 cm with 3 mm needles
DK Extrafine
It consists of a single strand of untwisted, round wool, which provides a lot of softness, sweetness, and comfort.
It is ideal for knitting shawls, showcasing lace stitches. We love knitting it double with a Mohair & silk yarn for soft, supple sweaters with a beautiful drape.
Category: DK – Double Knit
Composition: 100% Merino SW 19.5 micron
Needles: 3.5 to 4.5 mm
Square footage: 250 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 20/24 stitches = 10 cm
DK Mérino
Round and soft yarn. Can be knitted alone or doubled with mohair & silk. The merino DK base makes the colors more matte.
It is ideal for making pullovers and cardigans with cables that it will highlight thanks to its well-rounded yarn. Perfectly pairs in double with mohair & silk.
Category: DK – Double Knit
Composition: 100% Superwash Merino Wool
Needles: 3.5 to 4.5 mm
Square footage: 250 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 20/24 stitches – 10 cm
DK Sock
The mérino sock base is versatile, durable, and soft. It is ideal for creating pullovers and cardigans with cables that it will highlight thanks to its well-rounded yarn.
It pairs perfectly with mohair & silk. The colors on this base are brighter and more vibrant thanks to the nylon.
Category: DK – Double Knit
Composition: 75% superwash merino, 25% nylon
Needles: 3.5 to 4.5 mm
Square footage: 250 meters for 100 gr
Sample: 20/24 stitches – 10 cm
DK Kid Mohair
A fluffy and wonderfully soft yarn to create cozy pieces. It is the perfect mohair yarn for warm yet light garments.
Category: DK
Composition: 100% Kid mohair
Needles: 4.5 to 7 mm
Square footage: 150 meters for 50 gr
Sample:
16 stitches – 28 rows = 10 cm with 5 mm needles
12 stitches – 18 rows = 10 cm with 7 mm needles