If you guys are unhappy with the end yarn, you can just search up yarn spinning and see some really gorgeous batts of fiber turned into the type of yarn you're used to seeing, it's pretty cool
I would just display the yarn in a beautiful wooden bowl, it would be a lovely art piece. I don’t knit but I know stunning when I see it. Keep doing you ❤️
I feel like the inconsistency of the width would also be a problem when knitting or crocheting. Maybe if you’re making an art piece it could work, but ordinarily I think it would definitely work better for weaving
@@dragonfire7965 Yeah, the video saying "Chunky yarn is typically used for crocheting and knitting" is the fault of Art Insider not really understanding. Looking at her website and Instagram, Phoebe obviously mostly weaves with her chunky yarns to create beautiful wall pieces.
Get the terms right! This is called combing or brushing the fiber, which merely produces roving. Spinning is a whole other process required to produce yarn.
some people love yarns that are hot messes. They certainly have a place in my heart. They crochet into really cool organic looking things and I sometimes really like feeling the texture of large clods of mohair
@@naresvaripradipta31 in the video it is said to be used for crocheting and knitting, but as a crocheter i don't think those yarn are even appropriate to work with in the first place..
@@sunggjin I was thinking the same thing. That was super bulky and didn't look durable. Maybe for home decor items like rugs and baskets it would be fine.
It looks like she spun loose roving around a core without spinning the roving itself, DO NOT DO THIS. The weaving being done at the end appears to be done with a roving, DO NOT DO THIS. Anything knit or woven with a roving will get matted into felt or fall apart much sooner than a proper spun yarn. Roving is just the fibers lined up in parallel, they must be spun to make a strong yarn, then plied, washed and dried to set the twist.
From the looks of the end product shown, I think her yarn is made mainly for art pieces. So I don't think her spinning method will be much of a problem there, since they will be displayed and not be put to general use.
@@jacinthberyl5817 they said it was commonly used for knitting and crochet though, it would be REALLY good to mention that it will not stand up to wearing or washing. There was a big trend the past couple years of using roving to make thick chunky blankets, and then the heartbreak as your expensive woll roving mats, sheds, and disintegrates in the project you worked to hard on 😭
@@leahg.3393 Yeah, I remember that. I made a scarf using roving. It did not end well. Maybe it's used aong with other stronger yarns that give it more structural integrity. Or knitted an crocheted art pieces...
That carding drum is something else. I do minor projects with wool (usually acrylic though, not real) and use two carding brushes together or on a table to get the same effect. Takes FOREVER and my arms hurt. I need to look into a drum.
Very beautiful but when it said yarn in the title I was expecting standard yarn like from the store, yeah I know you can get chunky yarn at a store but I can't explain it why other way.
I do believe this is the type of yarn that is used in that like wall tapestry stuff. It’s weaved with other yarns of diffrent sizes, textures, and thickness and it actually looks pretty nice as an end product but yes this looks ugly rn lol
When my mother started spinning her own yarn, this is what it looked like. People might pay high dollar, but remember Bill Gates was willing to pay $50 for a box pizza rolls.
Just as a reminder, or for people who don't know it: Merino sheep are bred to have an extensive, unnatural amount of skin folds, to expand the amount of wool that grows on it and can be shawn. This has a negative effect on the sheep. Especially at their butt area where the skin folds are around their rear end, often flys lay their eggs (which turn to larvae) inside these skin folds, which leads to the larvae living inside the skin and eating away the flesh around the butt. This is called myiasis. To prevent this, because myiasis leads to a worse wool quality, sheep farmer use a method called 'Mulesing'. This isn't done for the sake of the sheep, only to be able to get good money for the wool. Mulesing is performed on the lambs without any anesthetics or sedation. The lambs are therefore strapped in a sort of frame, fixating all their four legs so the lamb can't move anymore. Sometimes their hind legs are strapped next to their heads. Sometimes the frame is turned upside down, so the lambs have to hang there heads down. The farmers use blades or knives to cut away large skin strips around the butt. This is done to create scar tissue that doesn't have folds and is generally more coarse than regular skin. This shall prevent flys from laying their eggs in there. Throughout the whole procedure, the lambs are fully awake, they feel every cut and the whole range of pain. They scream in terror and pain, but can't escape as they're strapped. This is a highly traumatizing process. The cut areas take long to heal and regularly get infected, as there is raw flesh around the butt, that comes in contact with feces. Australia is the only remaining continent where Mulesing is legally allowed. In Europe it is strictly forbidden, but also New Zealand has stopped using this method. Sadly most Merino wool originates in Australia. Some farmers have introduced a 'Mulesing free' label. But be not fooled, this isn't an official state provided label. It is generally not controlled, if the farmer who uses this label actually doesn't use the method. You would only certainly know if you yourself visit the farm and look at the sheep. But this is of course not a common practice for somebody who wants to buy a pullover. Considering Angora: Angora wool is 'harvested' from angora bunnies. These bunnies have underwent extreme selective breeding that their hair constantly grows and usually only stays on a bunny for at max 4 months, until the fur quality declines. That means, at least every 4 months the wool has to come off. Now there are three primary methods for this. First is shearing. This alone is a very stressful situation for the bunnies. If you ever handled a bunny that basically lives untouched other than being handled once every 4 months, you know that it will stress out. Bunnies are flight animals. They don't like human touches, unless you constantly train with them, leading to it tolerating this. Bunnies don't like to be restraint, or held tight. The shearing machine is loud, vibrating and often nicks the skin so it hurts and bleeds. But this is actually the least invasive of the thee methods. Method two is 'combing out'. The bunnies are herefore usually strapped at front and hind legs, so their body is stretched out and the bunny can't leave. Then a worker starts brushing with a metal brush, which rips out dead and alive hair. It is not uncommon that the bunnies scream in pain and fear for their life during this process. The work has to be done quick, no time to brush gently. Method three is plucking the hair. Here also the bunny is strapped tight so it can't move. Then the worker starts to rip out all the hair, while the bunny is fully awake. The rooms and halls are filled with screaming bunnies, as they suffer in pain. They are so long plucked until there's only bare skin left. The workers usually only leave out the 'dirty parts', like the paws, butt and face. You yourself know how painful it is to rip out your personal head hair. Imagine this on your whole body for minutes on end. After that, the traumatized bunnies, with pain on their entire body, are thrown back into their cages. These are tiny cages, where the bunny sits on metal or wood grating, so it can poo and pee which then falls out of the cage. The bunnies in these farms don't get any medical treatment, they often have serious infections, are in horrible health conditions and regularly die for health reasons or from shock of pain and trauma. Most of Angora wool originates in China. China is known for using the plucking method. That's why many big brands and stores actually stopped selling products containing Angora at all, like Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and C&A. Of course everybody is free to form their own opinion about this topic. None of this is overdramatized. This is exactly what happens day to day, only for that consumers can buy themselves pretty clothes. If you want to educate yourself more about the topic, you can find plenty information on the internet, even with videos. But let me warn you, what you find is haunting and really terrible. A person who loves animals and who values animals' health and rights, will not buy any Merino or Angora products. I personally read every label of clothing I'm interested to buy and if it contains any of these, I hang it back immediately. This industry may not be supported. Only with customers reclining the product, there can be set an end to this horrific animal torture.
Oh my god I never knew any of this. I recently started crocheting (and lurking in the knitting community) and merino wool yarn is such a big deal, I see it everywhere and noone is talking about the suffering faced by the animals? Especially since alot of this crowd are all about being environmentally concious. I had misread at first and almost thought you said to consider angora instead. Those poor rabbits. What the hell. Animal fibers are so praised as the superior yarn, I feel bamboozled reading this. Humans ruining breeds for their own gain once again.
Thats why you look for ethical Merino wool, while yes this practice is quite horrific not everyone does it looking for the proper farmers will determine how quickly this process dies out. Merino wool is far superior only when the sheep is happy and lives a satisfying life, similar to how when humans are stressed they shed more hair. There is a tragic truth to your comment but like I said, proper research allows us to produce and consume ethically
@@jazz-axy9924 Maybe I used the wrong wording there, sorry for confusing you. I'm not a native English speaker, so I often mix up words. I think many of these people are simply not informed and educated about the topic. These wools are trending somewhere, that's why they also get them. This is the reason why it's so important, to educate about the issue whenever you see somebody actually using this kind of wool. If you at least reach one person with your education and this person stops buying these products, that's already a great success. Thank you for being open minded towards this topic.
@@_TSC_46 I addressed this in my comment. As long as there isn't a global certified label which marks Mulesing-free wool, you really can't do your own research, if you don't live near the farm. People sadly easily trust 'labels' which every person, also you and I, can create and put on our products, but which don't have any source of regulation or control behind them. They see these labels as fact and spread this information. So even if another crocheter, or the wool shop staff comes at you and says this wool is cruelty free, you have to ask how they know about this. In most cases it's simply because 'the label said it' or 'somebody (who read the label) told me'. And that basically doesn't say anything. It has no value.
@@jazz-axy9924 ah I never heard any of this either. Need to fact check this specifically since I don’t love getting information solely from RUclips comments, but still. It’s so hard when the materials that aren’t from animals are so often plastics. There’s definitely ethical places, but there’s always drawbacks. I personally don’t think I’ll be able hand wash my clothes in college so that eliminates most wool that isn’t treated with things that are also terrible for the environment… and lots of fibers are again plastics… and then it’s hard to verify that any cotton production/growing/dying was produced ethically. It’s… hard. There are no perfect answers, just harm reduction right now imo. But hey, I think changes can be made and hopefully will be. There are also of course things other than angora and merino that may be better
Lol they do look like dog/cat hair brushes! I tried a cat hair brush a few times actually for doing something similar and it technically works! Probably wouldn’t recommend it for sanitary/allergy reasons, but they’re similar brushes for sure
Yes dog hair brushes work well on fibre like this and are cheaper than ones designed especially for carding fleece etc. they don’t last as long though as handles break.
If you guys are unhappy with the end yarn, you can just search up yarn spinning and see some really gorgeous batts of fiber turned into the type of yarn you're used to seeing, it's pretty cool
Thank you!
I hate videos with this kind of yarn as the end product. It’s so ugly lol thanks for this advice
id consider this yarn an art piece on its own. i have no idea how it could be used for other crafts tho...
Chunky knit accessories, weaving, decorative touches on other pieces, etc. Never tried to crochet such yarn... probably too thick for that!
@@jfm14 Idk about crochet, but I've seen extra big knitting needles for these kinds of yarn
That's really cool! The end product is not my thing, but I'm glad that it makes people happy! ☺️
I would just display the yarn in a beautiful wooden bowl, it would be a lovely art piece. I don’t knit but I know stunning when I see it.
Keep doing you ❤️
Hmm, that chunky of a core spin looks like it would be more appropriate for weaving.
I feel like the inconsistency of the width would also be a problem when knitting or crocheting. Maybe if you’re making an art piece it could work, but ordinarily I think it would definitely work better for weaving
@@dragonfire7965 glad we agree
@@dragonfire7965 Yeah, the video saying "Chunky yarn is typically used for crocheting and knitting" is the fault of Art Insider not really understanding. Looking at her website and Instagram, Phoebe obviously mostly weaves with her chunky yarns to create beautiful wall pieces.
What a cool job!! I have always wondered how they made this
Get the terms right! This is called combing or brushing the fiber, which merely produces roving. Spinning is a whole other process required to produce yarn.
That looks like so much fun and relaxing too💖
What a fun looking yarn!
I enjoyed watching, very entertaining and THANKS AGAIN🌷 👌🏽
That can really add a pop or personality into a piece. Or it can have a theme if its own, it's so pretty😩
Colors great but IDK what the heck you could MAKE with that hot mess.
some people love yarns that are hot messes. They certainly have a place in my heart. They crochet into really cool organic looking things and I sometimes really like feeling the texture of large clods of mohair
You could crochet a chunky blanket
I love watching this! Super satisfying!
Wow beautiful love it!!!
My favorite brand cause it's cheap and colors are nice.interesting to see how it's made
Sad how people can’t see the beauty in this art. You can make such beautiful pieces with chunky yarn and it’s so expensive to buy 😭
Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
@@noytc clearly
Just what I needed.. thank you
Anyone know what kind of final products from this technique? I am still confuse...
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It's yarn
@@teenat7044 so after that, what kind of products or craft that can make from yarn? or this yarn was already final products?
@@naresvaripradipta31
in the video it is said to be used for crocheting and knitting, but as a crocheter i don't think those yarn are even appropriate to work with in the first place..
@@sunggjin Oooww, thankyou 😊
@@sunggjin I was thinking the same thing. That was super bulky and didn't look durable. Maybe for home decor items like rugs and baskets it would be fine.
I love my drum carder! And I adore her chunky art yarn. I always struggle with spinning coils like that.
I want that as my hair now🤩
Yeah that looks like great material for a rug lol, but it probably comes with a HUGE price tag.
How satisfying 😌
I've never seen yarn spun like that! There's usually an equal amount of tension on both plies but i really like this kind
That is some really cute yarn, but very expensive. It can take between 130 to 300 yards of yarn to make a hat or scarf with bulky yarn.
So cool💗💗💗
I'm confused about the yarn. How do you crochet with such thick ropes of that?
I was wondering the same. You’d have to use size 25 hook!
It's like unicorn hair 🦄🤩.
This is really cool!
Beautiful
wow !!! so good
It looks like she spun loose roving around a core without spinning the roving itself, DO NOT DO THIS. The weaving being done at the end appears to be done with a roving, DO NOT DO THIS. Anything knit or woven with a roving will get matted into felt or fall apart much sooner than a proper spun yarn.
Roving is just the fibers lined up in parallel, they must be spun to make a strong yarn, then plied, washed and dried to set the twist.
From the looks of the end product shown, I think her yarn is made mainly for art pieces. So I don't think her spinning method will be much of a problem there, since they will be displayed and not be put to general use.
@@jacinthberyl5817 they said it was commonly used for knitting and crochet though, it would be REALLY good to mention that it will not stand up to wearing or washing. There was a big trend the past couple years of using roving to make thick chunky blankets, and then the heartbreak as your expensive woll roving mats, sheds, and disintegrates in the project you worked to hard on 😭
@@leahg.3393 Yeah, I remember that. I made a scarf using roving. It did not end well. Maybe it's used aong with other stronger yarns that give it more structural integrity. Or knitted an crocheted art pieces...
@@jacinthberyl5817 ohhh the pain!
@@leahg.3393 😔 it was pretty and soft for a day
15 yards? I used at least fifty to make my cat’s sweater-yikes! But hey, kitty is warm.
That carding drum is something else. I do minor projects with wool (usually acrylic though, not real) and use two carding brushes together or on a table to get the same effect. Takes FOREVER and my arms hurt. I need to look into a drum.
so cool
Everyone watching this: I could easily quit my job and do this!!
...until they look up how much a drum carder costs. Alas, my dreams
Excuse me, i can't see the beauty in this 🤷🏼♀️
Very beautiful but when it said yarn in the title I was expecting standard yarn like from the store, yeah I know you can get chunky yarn at a store but I can't explain it why other way.
Is that how large yarn houses make variegated yarns?
Super satisfying but the end result is ugly
In art projects, someone elses, I can't see rules being set. Creative experience is valuable. Let it be. Jumping to product isn't always necessary.
❤❤❤
I do believe this is the type of yarn that is used in that like wall tapestry stuff. It’s weaved with other yarns of diffrent sizes, textures, and thickness and it actually looks pretty nice as an end product but yes this looks ugly rn lol
The roller was nice but why was it turnd in to the thickest and the ugliest wool iv ever seen and iv dun wool craft since I was a kid!
When my mother started spinning her own yarn, this is what it looked like. People might pay high dollar, but remember Bill Gates was willing to pay $50 for a box pizza rolls.
15 yards? What can one do with 15 yards
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Just as a reminder, or for people who don't know it:
Merino sheep are bred to have an extensive, unnatural amount of skin folds, to expand the amount of wool that grows on it and can be shawn. This has a negative effect on the sheep. Especially at their butt area where the skin folds are around their rear end, often flys lay their eggs (which turn to larvae) inside these skin folds, which leads to the larvae living inside the skin and eating away the flesh around the butt. This is called myiasis.
To prevent this, because myiasis leads to a worse wool quality, sheep farmer use a method called 'Mulesing'. This isn't done for the sake of the sheep, only to be able to get good money for the wool. Mulesing is performed on the lambs without any anesthetics or sedation. The lambs are therefore strapped in a sort of frame, fixating all their four legs so the lamb can't move anymore. Sometimes their hind legs are strapped next to their heads. Sometimes the frame is turned upside down, so the lambs have to hang there heads down. The farmers use blades or knives to cut away large skin strips around the butt. This is done to create scar tissue that doesn't have folds and is generally more coarse than regular skin. This shall prevent flys from laying their eggs in there.
Throughout the whole procedure, the lambs are fully awake, they feel every cut and the whole range of pain. They scream in terror and pain, but can't escape as they're strapped. This is a highly traumatizing process.
The cut areas take long to heal and regularly get infected, as there is raw flesh around the butt, that comes in contact with feces.
Australia is the only remaining continent where Mulesing is legally allowed. In Europe it is strictly forbidden, but also New Zealand has stopped using this method.
Sadly most Merino wool originates in Australia.
Some farmers have introduced a 'Mulesing free' label. But be not fooled, this isn't an official state provided label. It is generally not controlled, if the farmer who uses this label actually doesn't use the method.
You would only certainly know if you yourself visit the farm and look at the sheep. But this is of course not a common practice for somebody who wants to buy a pullover.
Considering Angora: Angora wool is 'harvested' from angora bunnies. These bunnies have underwent extreme selective breeding that their hair constantly grows and usually only stays on a bunny for at max 4 months, until the fur quality declines. That means, at least every 4 months the wool has to come off. Now there are three primary methods for this. First is shearing. This alone is a very stressful situation for the bunnies. If you ever handled a bunny that basically lives untouched other than being handled once every 4 months, you know that it will stress out. Bunnies are flight animals. They don't like human touches, unless you constantly train with them, leading to it tolerating this. Bunnies don't like to be restraint, or held tight. The shearing machine is loud, vibrating and often nicks the skin so it hurts and bleeds. But this is actually the least invasive of the thee methods.
Method two is 'combing out'. The bunnies are herefore usually strapped at front and hind legs, so their body is stretched out and the bunny can't leave. Then a worker starts brushing with a metal brush, which rips out dead and alive hair. It is not uncommon that the bunnies scream in pain and fear for their life during this process. The work has to be done quick, no time to brush gently.
Method three is plucking the hair. Here also the bunny is strapped tight so it can't move. Then the worker starts to rip out all the hair, while the bunny is fully awake. The rooms and halls are filled with screaming bunnies, as they suffer in pain. They are so long plucked until there's only bare skin left. The workers usually only leave out the 'dirty parts', like the paws, butt and face.
You yourself know how painful it is to rip out your personal head hair. Imagine this on your whole body for minutes on end.
After that, the traumatized bunnies, with pain on their entire body, are thrown back into their cages. These are tiny cages, where the bunny sits on metal or wood grating, so it can poo and pee which then falls out of the cage.
The bunnies in these farms don't get any medical treatment, they often have serious infections, are in horrible health conditions and regularly die for health reasons or from shock of pain and trauma.
Most of Angora wool originates in China. China is known for using the plucking method.
That's why many big brands and stores actually stopped selling products containing Angora at all, like Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and C&A.
Of course everybody is free to form their own opinion about this topic. None of this is overdramatized. This is exactly what happens day to day, only for that consumers can buy themselves pretty clothes. If you want to educate yourself more about the topic, you can find plenty information on the internet, even with videos. But let me warn you, what you find is haunting and really terrible.
A person who loves animals and who values animals' health and rights, will not buy any Merino or Angora products.
I personally read every label of clothing I'm interested to buy and if it contains any of these, I hang it back immediately. This industry may not be supported. Only with customers reclining the product, there can be set an end to this horrific animal torture.
Oh my god I never knew any of this. I recently started crocheting (and lurking in the knitting community) and merino wool yarn is such a big deal, I see it everywhere and noone is talking about the suffering faced by the animals? Especially since alot of this crowd are all about being environmentally concious.
I had misread at first and almost thought you said to consider angora instead. Those poor rabbits. What the hell. Animal fibers are so praised as the superior yarn, I feel bamboozled reading this. Humans ruining breeds for their own gain once again.
Thats why you look for ethical Merino wool, while yes this practice is quite horrific not everyone does it looking for the proper farmers will determine how quickly this process dies out.
Merino wool is far superior only when the sheep is happy and lives a satisfying life, similar to how when humans are stressed they shed more hair. There is a tragic truth to your comment but like I said, proper research allows us to produce and consume ethically
@@jazz-axy9924 Maybe I used the wrong wording there, sorry for confusing you. I'm not a native English speaker, so I often mix up words.
I think many of these people are simply not informed and educated about the topic. These wools are trending somewhere, that's why they also get them.
This is the reason why it's so important, to educate about the issue whenever you see somebody actually using this kind of wool.
If you at least reach one person with your education and this person stops buying these products, that's already a great success.
Thank you for being open minded towards this topic.
@@_TSC_46 I addressed this in my comment. As long as there isn't a global certified label which marks Mulesing-free wool, you really can't do your own research, if you don't live near the farm.
People sadly easily trust 'labels' which every person, also you and I, can create and put on our products, but which don't have any source of regulation or control behind them.
They see these labels as fact and spread this information. So even if another crocheter, or the wool shop staff comes at you and says this wool is cruelty free, you have to ask how they know about this. In most cases it's simply because 'the label said it' or 'somebody (who read the label) told me'.
And that basically doesn't say anything. It has no value.
@@jazz-axy9924 ah I never heard any of this either. Need to fact check this specifically since I don’t love getting information solely from RUclips comments, but still. It’s so hard when the materials that aren’t from animals are so often plastics. There’s definitely ethical places, but there’s always drawbacks. I personally don’t think I’ll be able hand wash my clothes in college so that eliminates most wool that isn’t treated with things that are also terrible for the environment… and lots of fibers are again plastics… and then it’s hard to verify that any cotton production/growing/dying was produced ethically. It’s… hard. There are no perfect answers, just harm reduction right now imo. But hey, I think changes can be made and hopefully will be. There are also of course things other than angora and merino that may be better
I see a dog hair brush
Lol they do look like dog/cat hair brushes! I tried a cat hair brush a few times actually for doing something similar and it technically works! Probably wouldn’t recommend it for sanitary/allergy reasons, but they’re similar brushes for sure
Yes dog hair brushes work well on fibre like this and are cheaper than ones designed especially for carding fleece etc. they don’t last as long though as handles break.
Idk if I'd call the end result Yarn. More like clumps of pretty wool, but not yarn.
EW. EWWWW