Magiske Garner | Steam Yarn 50g
Magiske Garner Steam is an active yarn with built-in energy, designed to create movement, texture, and subtle shaping in finished fabric. Active yarns respond dramatically to wet finishing, transforming as they relax and contract. Steam brings this quality into both weaving and knitting, allowing makers to introduce structure and visual interest without complex techniques.
In weaving, Steam works beautifully as both warp and weft, where its energetic nature adds surface texture and gentle dimensionality to cloth. Once wet finished, the fabric shifts and settles, revealing depth and character that cannot be achieved with passive yarns alone. It is especially effective in textiles where movement and tactility are part of the design language.
For knitters, Steam can be used as a running thread to introduce elasticity and controlled contraction, or held double for playful textural effects in patterned stitches. After washing, the yarn draws in, creating lively surfaces and enhanced structure. Colour 768 Light Brown is particularly effective as a reinforcing runner in ribbed edges when paired with less elastic yarns, such as musk yarn, helping improve resilience and recovery.
Steam is a yarn for makers who enjoy watching fabric evolve. Its transformation during finishing makes it an exciting choice for experimental textiles, expressive garments, and projects where structure and movement are central to the design.
Want to know more about Active yarn and using them to create texture in your weaving projects? Thread Collective now stocks the book Thread Magic – Weaving for shape and texture.
- Fibre: 97% wool, 3% lycra
- Nm: 46/2
- Running length: 23,000 m/kg
- Weight per spool: 50 g
- Number of metres: Approximately 1,050 m
- Suitable for: Weaving and knitting
- Weaving use: Warp and weft for texture and movement
- Knitting use: Running thread or held double for contraction effects
- Character: Active, responsive, and transformative
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