Isager Soft Fine - E7s

Isager Soft Fine is like a slightly more luxurious Soft Mohair with 63% alpaca, 26% silk, and 11% yak. It is excellent for knitting with a single strand or even as a companion thread.

The soft ISAGER SOFT with its brushed look is very popular, so we wanted to introduce a thinner version as well. ISAGER SOFT is made as a cotton tube with fine alpaca fibers blown in and can only be made as a thick yarn. ISAGER SOFT FINE is made with a silk core, where a thread consisting of Alpaca and Yak is first made as a boucle and then brushed up.

So it is both a different production technique and fiber composition than ISAGER SOFT, but we think the term is similar enough to call it ISAGER SOFT FINE. ISAGER SOFT FINE contains yak wool and in the same way as we know it from our s-colors, where black wool is mixed with white to give a speckled yarn, it is now the yak’s dark color that brings life to the yarn. The yarn’s soft appearance makes it look immediately like Silk Mohair, but it is very different to knit with and easier to handle if you only want to knit with one strand. The yarn is incredibly soft and internally we call it "Isager's Cashmere".

GAUGE

Isager Soft Fine: 10 cm = needles 3.5 – 21 sts/32 rows
Isager Soft Fine: 10 cm = needles 4.5 – 16 sts/26 rows
Isager Soft Fine: 10 cm = needle 6.0 – 13 sts/26 rows

SPECIFICATIONS

    63% alpaca, 26% silk, and 11% yak
    Delivered in skeins of 25 grams/150 m
    The yarn with the brown bands is undyed
    The yarn with the black bands is dyed
    Spun in Peru

Washing instructions

Wool should be hand washed unless you have a washing machine with a very gentle wool program that can wash in cold water. Use an approved wool detergent. Keep the same temperature throughout the washing and rinsing process and finally do not wash above 28 degrees Celsius. The knitted garment can advantageously be gently spun after washing. Place the garment in a laundry bag or a pillowcase. After spinning, lay the garment out on towels to dry.

It is not necessary to wash a wool garment very often. Usually, it is enough to hang the garment up for airing. Cotton yarn and blended yarns with linen and bamboo tolerate higher washing temperatures, but we recommend the same washing as for wool yarn.

Storage

Remember to store yarn and knitting in plastic bags or tightly woven cotton bags or in a plastic box with a lid. This is because Isager yarns are not moth-treated, as the available treatments have side effects for allergy sufferers and only last until the first wash.