Schaefer Yarn Silk Lace Yarn, Elizabeth Blackwell, Discontinued

I have available two matched cakes of Schaefer Yarn Andrea in Elizabeth Blackwell — warm rust and copper threaded with grey and dusty rose — 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 Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), the first woman to receive an M.D. in the United States, 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 Elizabeth Blackwell.   I have two matched cakes available. One cake has a small bit that has separated out into a ball. This cake will be discounted accordingly. 

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