Most cotton-linen blends sit closer to 50/50 or 60/40. Etesia is 77% cotton and 23% linen, a deliberately higher cotton ratio that softens the hand of the yarn while keeping enough linen to carry the drape and the bloom after blocking. Cotton on its own can feel dense and heavy. Linen on its own can feel rough until it has been worn in for a long time. This blend, in this ratio, gives a yarn that is comfortable in the hand at cast-on and lived-in after the first wash.
The 275-yard, 100-gram hank is generous put-up for a hand-dyed DK. A short-sleeve summer tee runs four to six hanks across most adult sizes. Hand-dyed cotton-linen DK is uncommon in the broader yarn market, and Etesia is the only linen blend in Urth's plant-fiber catalog, which spans mercerized cotton and self-striping cotton in adjacent lines.
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