Each skein is unique, glowing in brilliant colours like a necklace of multiple ropes of coloured beads. I bought two (total 300g) without the faintest idea of what I would make. It was that sort of yarn, demanding to be taken home and enthroned for general admiration. Apparently it is made in India from worn-out saris, shredded and respun. The idea is not new. Shoddy, made of salvaged woollens mixed with new fibre, was a cheap and serviceable textile until dishonest contractors supplied blankets of shoddy that just fell apart to the British Army in the Crimean War. After that 'shoddy' came to describe anything of poor quality. But back to the salvaged silk.
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