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Please make your selections below:
#50 North American Wild Black Cherry
$19.95
$19.95
#51 North American Black Walnut burl $19.95
#52 North American hard maple $19.95
#54 South American Redheart $19.95
Yarn Wraps per Inch gauges
#59 North American Redwood Burl
$24.95
$24.95
#60 Australian Brown Malee burl $24.95
#61 African Wenge $19.95
#62 North American Fiddle back maple $19.95
If you are looking for a functional yarn gauge or a collector item, look no further.
Here are wrap gauges that have the appropriate ambiance for your valuable hand spun yarns.
They are designed to assist you in measuring the diameter of your yarn.
Traditionally yarn has been known as fine, medium and bulky spun.
These terms are too general for most of us and open to much interpretation. Weight per length of yarn has been
used in the past, not always successfully. WPI (wraps per inch) is the current method used and this indicates how
many times the spun yarn can be wound around a ruler for one inch (2.5cm)
This hardwood gauge incorporates both a ½ inch and a one inch measure. To find the wpi for a finely spun yarn it
will be quicker and easier to use the ½ inch measure, while wpi for a thicker yarn will be more accurately
determined using the one inch measure.
To use the gauge simply wind the yarn firmly round it with each thread touching the next but not overlapping or
crammed in. Fill the notch from end to end. Try not to stretch the wool while winding as the tighter you wrap the
yarn the flatter and wider it will get.
Count the number of wraps and this will give you the wpi using the one inch measure. Double the number when
you use the ½ inch measure.
For most people it is easier to count the turns as you wind rather than return to count after the winds are laid.
As a general rule of thumb, bulky yarn will have up to six wpi, medium spun will have 14 – 18 wpi, and fine spun will
have yarn gauge 25 or more wpi. Cottons and very fine yarns will have more than 80wpi.
Two yarns that have the same WPI can be exchanged. This is important if you are trying to substitute one yarn for
another for a given pattern.
Here is a handy wrap per inch to stitch per inch conversions table:
18 or more wpi, approximately equivalent to lace weight, knits at 8 or more st/in, use needles size 00 to 2
16 wpi, fingering or baby weight, or maybe socks, knits at 6-8 sts/in, needles size 2 -4
14 wpi, sport weight, sport, knits at 5-6 sts/in, needle size 4-6
12 wpi, equivalent to worsted wt knitting yarn (remember that worsted in this instance is not talking about how the
yarn was spun, but about its approximate thickness.), 4 1/2 to 5 sts/in, needle size 7-9
10 wpi, equivalent to bulky or chunky yarn, 3 1/2 to 4 sts/in, needle size 10 - 11
8 or less wpi, very bulky, 2-3 sts/in, needles size 13 -16
Here are wrap gauges that have the appropriate ambiance for your valuable hand spun yarns.
They are designed to assist you in measuring the diameter of your yarn.
Traditionally yarn has been known as fine, medium and bulky spun.
These terms are too general for most of us and open to much interpretation. Weight per length of yarn has been
used in the past, not always successfully. WPI (wraps per inch) is the current method used and this indicates how
many times the spun yarn can be wound around a ruler for one inch (2.5cm)
This hardwood gauge incorporates both a ½ inch and a one inch measure. To find the wpi for a finely spun yarn it
will be quicker and easier to use the ½ inch measure, while wpi for a thicker yarn will be more accurately
determined using the one inch measure.
To use the gauge simply wind the yarn firmly round it with each thread touching the next but not overlapping or
crammed in. Fill the notch from end to end. Try not to stretch the wool while winding as the tighter you wrap the
yarn the flatter and wider it will get.
Count the number of wraps and this will give you the wpi using the one inch measure. Double the number when
you use the ½ inch measure.
For most people it is easier to count the turns as you wind rather than return to count after the winds are laid.
As a general rule of thumb, bulky yarn will have up to six wpi, medium spun will have 14 – 18 wpi, and fine spun will
have yarn gauge 25 or more wpi. Cottons and very fine yarns will have more than 80wpi.
Two yarns that have the same WPI can be exchanged. This is important if you are trying to substitute one yarn for
another for a given pattern.
Here is a handy wrap per inch to stitch per inch conversions table:
18 or more wpi, approximately equivalent to lace weight, knits at 8 or more st/in, use needles size 00 to 2
16 wpi, fingering or baby weight, or maybe socks, knits at 6-8 sts/in, needles size 2 -4
14 wpi, sport weight, sport, knits at 5-6 sts/in, needle size 4-6
12 wpi, equivalent to worsted wt knitting yarn (remember that worsted in this instance is not talking about how the
yarn was spun, but about its approximate thickness.), 4 1/2 to 5 sts/in, needle size 7-9
10 wpi, equivalent to bulky or chunky yarn, 3 1/2 to 4 sts/in, needle size 10 - 11
8 or less wpi, very bulky, 2-3 sts/in, needles size 13 -16
#53 North American Figured Black Walnut $19.95
#55 North American Fiddleback maple $19.95
Central American Bacote Rosewood $19.95
#57 South American Canarywood $19.95
#58 North American Fiddleback Maple $19.95
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North American Wild Black Cherry
#50
#50
North American Black Walnut Burl
#51
#51
North American Hard Maple #52
North American Figured Black
Walnut #53
Walnut #53
South American Redheart #54
North American Fiddle back maple
#55
#55
#56 African Zebrawood $19.95
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