Schaefer Yarn Silk Lace Yarn, Emily Dickinson, Discontinued

A single cake of Schaefer Yarn Andrea in Emily Dickinson — soft peach and bright pink on a sand-and-tan ground — 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 Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American poet, with the biography printed on the reverse of the band. Schaefer Yarn closed its Interlaken NY mill in 2014 — Andrea has never been reproduced.

This listing is for one cake of Schaefer Yarn Andrea in the colourway Emily Dickinson. One of one from the Schaefer destash; no more will be made.

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)

About Schaefer Yarn:

Schaefer Yarn Company was the Interlaken, New York mill founded by Cheryl Schaefer in 1991 and run as a family business through 2014, when Cheryl retired and the studio closed for good. Schaefer was known for two things: deeply painted, long-colour-run hand-dyes (Anne, Esperanza, Lola, Heather) and naming their silk flagship Andrea after great women in history — Rosa Parks, Emily Dickinson, Dian Fossey, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Zimmermann — with a short biography printed on the back of every band. Production stopped over a decade ago and the line has never been revived; every Andrea skein on the market today is from a remaining studio destash or a private knitter’s stash.