.86 Coarse Yarn

The .86, a 480-yard-per-pound bulky single, was originally made as a weaving yarn and is patterned after the hard spun rug yarn associated with the long-wearing Navajo rugs of the first half of the twentieth century. The sample yarns were harvested from a fragment of a plate XXVIII JB Moore era Crystal “storm pattern.”

Skeins of .86 coarse yarns are 1/4 pound / 113 grams (approximately 120 yards / 110 meters).

From creating 4 selvage weavings on vertical looms to large hand-woven paneled area rugs on European style horizontal looms to weaving guitar straps on multi-heddle power looms, this yarn has been used by weavers across cultural lines, both as a weft and as warp.  It crochets and knits into sturdy outerwear and bags.