Combed or carded: which yarn for your fabric
Combing costs more and loses fibre. Here is when it is worth it.
Reading a yarn lot sheet
What count CV, CSP, U% and imperfections tell you about how a yarn will run.
Read the postJournal
Notes from Ilavam Spinning Mills
Guides, care tips and stories from behind the counter.
How the cotton season sets your yarn price
Why yarn prices move between October and March, and how to plan around it.
Storing cotton yarn cones in a humid godown
Moisture, sunlight and stacking height: how to keep yarn running well between delivery and the knitting floor.
Ring-spun, compact and open-end yarn compared
Three ways to spin cotton, how the yarns differ in strength, hairiness and cost, and which suits your fabric.
Planning yarn orders around Deepavali and the export calendar
When knitters in Tiruppur buy, when mills slow down, and how to avoid a gap in supply in October and November.
From bale to cone: a day on our spinning floor
Blow room, carding, combing, drawing, roving, ring frames and winding: how cotton becomes a cone of yarn.
Salem, Tiruppur and Erode: how the Kongu textile belt works
Where cotton is spun, knitted, woven, dyed and traded in western Tamil Nadu, and how yarn moves between towns.
Is a higher count always a better yarn?
Why Ne 60s is not automatically better than Ne 30s, and how to pick the count your fabric actually needs.
What goes into the price of a kilo of Ne 30s yarn
Cotton, waste, power, labour, packing and transport: a plain breakdown of carded hosiery yarn costs.
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