This beautiful merino base from Shangdrok is a single ply yarn available in a wide and carefully considered range of hand dyed colours. The choice to spin it as a single ply is a deliberate and meaningful one — without the twist of multiple plies to muddy or compress the colour, the dye sits on the fibre in the most direct and unmediated way possible, resulting in finished projects that are noticeably more vivid and luminous than you might achieve with a plied equivalent. It's a yarn that really does let the colour speak. And colour, for Shangdrok, is everything — the driving inspiration behind the brand is the idea of taking colours that exist first in the imagination and finding a way to bring them into the real world, translated faithfully onto fibre. There's something genuinely creative and personal in that approach, and you can feel it in the finished skeins, which have a depth and intentionality that sets them apart. For projects where colour is the star — whether bold and saturated or soft and painterly — this merino base gives it the best possible stage.

Fibre: 100% Superwash Wool
Weight: 100g
Thickness: Fingering
Construction: Single Ply
Length: 400 metres | 437 yards
Gauge: 28 - 32 sts = 10cm | 4 inches
Needle Size: 2.5 – 3.5 mm | 1.5 - 4 US