Schaefer Yarn Silk Lace Yarn, Dian Fossey, Discontinued

Two matched cakes of Schaefer Yarn Andrea in Dian Fossey — a deep mossy-green and slate base flecked with chartreuse and black — painted onto Schaefer’s 100% cultivated mulberry silk lace, 1,093 yd / 100 g per skein. The Andrea series names every colourway after a woman in history; this one is Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American primatologist, with the biography printed on the reverse of the band. Schaefer Yarn closed its Interlaken NY mill in 2014 — Andrea has never been reproduced. — the pair lives in this one listing, both cakes shipped together

This listing is for one cake of Schaefer Yarn Andrea in the colourway Dian Fossey, I have two matched cakes available— ~2,186 yd total — from the same Schaefer dye lot.

About the yarn:

Schaefer Yarn’s Andrea is a 100% cultivated mulberry silk lace-weight — 3.5 oz / 100 g / 1,093 yd per skein, hand-painted in tonal multi-colour washes. Andrea is Schaefer’s silk flagship: a fine, mercerised lace silk with a quiet sheen and a very long yardage, gauged at 8 st/in on US 0 / 2.0 mm for serious lace knitters, and held doubled for fingering-weight stitch-pattern work. The line was hand-painted in Interlaken, New York, and the colour series was named after great women in history — each band carries a short biography of its namesake on the reverse.

• Fibre: 100% cultivated mulberry silk
• Weight: lace
• Yardage: 1,093 yd / 1,000 m per 100 g skein
• Skein size: 3.5 oz / 100 g
• Construction: 2-ply, mercerised lace silk
• Needle: US 0 / 2.0 mm at 8 st/in (held double for fingering)
• Care: dry clean recommended (hand-wash cold delicate; lay flat)
• Maker: Schaefer Yarn, Interlaken NY (closed 2014)