Angora - luxury yarn

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Angora is a yarn made from the down of the angora rabbit. It was created by the Chinese as an analogue of mohair. Today, "angora" is incredibly popular among needlewomen. Various manufacturers offer a variety of angora yarn options. The assortment is always huge, and the palette of colors is also rich.

Benefits

Pleasant to the touch, angora is a yarn that has several important advantages:

• all products made from it are soft, fluffy and unusually light;
• angora yarn products are very warm;
• this is a fairly durable material;
• "angora" does not cause allergies;
• to knit a large product, you need a little yarn, i.e. the consumption is very economical.

100% angora - good or bad?

100% angora yarn is very expensive. That is why manufacturers are trying to mix it with other materials:

• Natural. For example, mohair.
• Synthetic. Yarn "Angora Gold" from "Alize" contains 10% angora and wool and 80% acrylic

Pure angora yarn is not abundantcolor palette. The fact is that most of the rabbits whose fluff is taken for its production are albinos. Accordingly, such yarn will be snow-white or gray.

Another advantage of adding extra fibers to Angora yarn is to increase its strength. Such a product will be worn for more than one year.

There are also cons

Despite a large number of advantages, angora is a yarn that has several negative characteristics. Firstly, she constantly “climbs”, thin hairs and fluff remain on the rest of the clothes. The reason is that the rabbit down is not able to attach very firmly to the yarn.

Secondly, products made from such yarn will have to be looked after in a special way. You can't get it wet. Therefore, you will have to constantly give things from the "angora" to dry cleaning.

What to knit?

There are different types of angora yarn. Depending on the composition, certain products can be connected. Angora makes warm and beautiful hats. You can often find elegant outerwear in the form of a coat or capes. Fashionistas prefer sweaters, blouses, angora dresses. Mittens, scarves, gloves and snoods are good.

It is best to create things from angora that are designed for open toe. This is necessary in order to prevent premature rolling down. Accordingly, the thing will last a long time. Very beautiful shawls, boleros, capes are obtained from such yarn. They are completely weightless, but warm well. At the same time, they look very elegant!

Reviews

Angora yarn reviews are very diverse. Someone really likes to knit soft and fluffy things out of it. Someone is an opponent of thin threads. There are reviews that carry very useful information for both needlewomen and owners of angora products:

1. Craftswomen claim that it is possible to wash products from this yarn. And even tested it on their own experience. The only condition is lukewarm water and a very mild shampoo.
2. A thing from "angora" will retain its original shape much longer (it will not stretch) if you add a silk thread of the same shade during knitting.

Angora yarn is varied. It differs in color, composition, and the number of meters in the glomerulus. Many needlewomen advise to be very careful about the choice of threads. Some suppliers and manufacturers go to the trick and call mohair "angora". And such yarn is obtained from the fluff of angora goats.

There are those who just love to create from angora. And even the high cost of yarn does not bother anyone. After all, the consumption is very, very small. At the same time, the product is silky, soft and incredibly light. If skillful hands are also applied to this, then any thing will look rich, elegant and aristocratic.