I am thinking that these were handspun by someone. And wow, what an amazing job they did spinning this stuff up. It appears to be fingering or maybe lace weight. In the photo above, the colors are muted and kinda dingy. Well, I wound them into balls to get them off the bobbins and you would not believe the color that emerged underneath the top colors. Who knows how long they were on the bobbins, but man, they are gorgeous!
The first one (blue & white) is probably silk. The second (grey) one is possibly a merino wool, and the last one (blue) is probably mohair as it has a bit of a halo.
The blue and grey yarns called out to me, so I started a scarf with them in a ripple lace pattern. I’m totally infatuated with the yarn and the pattern. This is my first attempt at lace that isn’t a yo k2tog pattern and I’m loving the results so far.
Wow, that looks really good!
My husband claims these are weaving yarns. And the stick they’re on is the middle of some kind of shuttle. The man knows so much crap about so many useless things that it pisses me off. I can never tell if he’s right or if he’s just trying to make me look like an ass. I don’t need help with that, thanks sweetie.
Weaving shuttles are wound longwise. The only reason I know is because I took a weaving class in college and we used the gigantic looms and all the stuff we used was ancient. Including some of the yarn.