http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm savannahchik knits, sews, cooks Sun, 04 Oct 2015 16:52:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4773 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:11:30 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4773 Any of you guys spin? Just sayin, but the distribution of mixed-fiber batts can vary a bit. My 50% wool 25%silk 25% cotton yarn might be 50/20/30 in spots. I dont know how yarn testers do their samples but I would think multiple samples would be the thing to do, and then average the results, to determine content.
Insofar as DNA testing I am sure that dyeing and bleaching would throw the results but what about the untreated fiber?

]]> http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4772 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:08:59 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4772 As a (new) yarn store owner who was faced with this issue right off the bat – the whole cashmere issue had me completely confused and a bit overwhelmed until I did a LOT of research to get to the bottom of it. Ultimately, I feel horrible for Debbie Bliss – she, herself, did nothing wrong …but I did have to question why so many yarn shops are dropping all their KFI lines and refusing to work with the company.

]]> http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4771 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:57:26 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4771 I think KFI and Designer Yarn are giving us the
stonewall treatment. Bet
they are trying to hide something. Why else wouldn’t they publish them to the public?
Alice

]]> http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4770 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:26:25 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4770 Jody,
Simply brilliant especially when you write ” Of course it matters.”
I’m coming to the conclusion the culprits thought they could get away with the cashmere problem because knitters enjoy the process and look forward to what the project will be when finished instead of looking backward at what the materials really are.
Not entirely there yet, but that’s where I’m tending to go.

]]> http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4769 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:15:34 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4769 Thanks, Jody! I enjoyed reading your thoughts.

]]> http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4768 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:00:46 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4768 Hiya, I only heard about all of this while listening to a Podcast by Lime N Violet.
As laws are different here in Europe I didn’t really get all excited about it, although I do think it is not fair for a designer (of yarn) to force a certain price on shops. It is not her problem how much profit the shop makes from her product as long as she get what she is supposed to get.
Cheers Eva

]]> http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4767 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:51:07 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4767 My very limited understanding of the cashmere issue is that false negatives are very common in tests for cashmere fiber. So very often, tests will suggest that there is no cashmere fiber when there actually is. In any case, Cascade’s handling of the issue leaves much to be desired. If they were genuinely concerned about people being ripped off they should have notified the appropriate government agency in Britain then waited for the results. Blabbing to all and sundry while the issue is still in question is petty, and frankly makes me not want to support Cascade.
As for Tilli Tomas, I never even heard of them until this whole thing happened (maybe it’s all a big scheme to get publicity??)
But seriously, this is really between TT and their customers, much like the whole “KFI sucks as a supplier” is really between yarn stores and KFI. That said, I’m particularly piqued about the KFI issue since it leads retailers to stop carrying certain brands I like. But really, that’s a hypocritical complaint on my part. As a poor starving grad student, I buy most of my yarn on the internets anyway…

]]> http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4766 Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:36:17 +0000 http://savannahchik.com/2006/10/the-business-of-yarn/#comment-4766 I work in a yarn store and the owner’s personal opinion tends to be that this is between Cascade and KFI and she resents them trying to play her as part of the argument. She also says that the papers she was sent never said that the DB Cashmerino line did *not* contain cashmere. Rather, it said that they could not conclusively prove there was or was not cashmere in the yarn.
My husband, who has a PhD in chemistry, is a bit suspicious of the claim that “DNA” testing was performed because it’s his opinion that the processing of the yarn would destroy the DNA enough to make it inconclusive.
Given that Noro Cash Iroha (another KFI yarn) has also been implicated by Cascade and yet has not responded, it gets curioser and curiouser.
I think the whole thing is too bad and it makes the yarn industry as a whole look disreputable.

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