{"id":2325,"date":"2020-06-16T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T09:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christallk.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2025-06-26T22:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:58:36","slug":"grosseurs-de-laine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christallk.com\/en\/grosseurs-de-laine\/","title":{"rendered":"How to understand the different sizes of wool?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you have read the article on how to decipher a label on a skein of wool<\/a>, you have certainly wanted to go further and understand all the names for wool sizes: fingering, lace, Nm etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let's go ahead and dive into the technical side.
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Wool sizes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

First, let's talk about titling<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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This article will enlighten you on the different sizes of wool available on the market and their names depending on the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When making my wool, I had to delve into the technical terms of industrial spinning and understand what counting was.
You might ask: what's the point of knowing this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some online stores, including Colourmart<\/a> which supplies wholesale yarns from the textile industry \u2013 cashmere here I come \u2013 wools are classified according to the count. Not according to their thickness or their use or the needles needed to knit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The titration<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

The count indicates the thickness of a thread, so it gives you the ratio between the weight (we are talking here about a kilo) and the length of the thread. The more thread there is per kilo, the finer the thread will be, therefore the higher the count will be. The unit used to indicate this count will be the Nm or metric number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The metric number<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

This metric number will indicate the amount of yarn (the yardage) per kilogram of wool. So, for example, you might find a number like Nm28, which would mean you have 28,000 meters of yarn per kilogram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let's go a little further if you don't mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes you can find this indication Nm 2\/28 like here at Colourmart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s decipher what these numbers mean<\/h6>\n\n\n\n