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Spun mulberry silk yarn offers a rare combination of luxurious softness, smooth strength, luminous sheen, and graceful drape that makes every project feel elevated from the very beginning. Unlike rougher or drier silks, mulberry silk is prized for its refined hand and elegant, light-catching beauty, giving woven cloth, knitted pieces, and crocheted fabric a polished, fluid finish that feels truly special. It also takes dye beautifully, producing rich, radiant color with exceptional depth and clarity. For weavers, knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists who want materials that feel inspiring in the hands and create heirloom-quality results, Golden Warp Yarn Co offers spun mulberry silk chosen for its beauty, versatility, and unmistakable sense of luxury—yarn that helps transform both the making process and the finished piece into something extraordinary, without breaking the bank.

Here is something to help with trying to understand what the yarn sizes of mulberry silk mean for you when trying to decide on which one to buy.  I am using cotton 10/2 and cotton 8/2 for references because most fiber artists have some experience with these yarns. This image only applies to mulberry. You cannot compare the numerical sizes of one kind of fiber to a different kind of fiber. 

Notice how the 10 Nm and the 4 Nm are fluffy in comparison to the other yarns. They are single ply yarn. They will have the most luster (shine) of the yarns but they are also the weakest because they are only single ply. That doesn't mean they can't be used as a warp yarn but you have to be more careful. They will also present differently in your finished fabric. Silk does not full like wool does. Silk maintains its shape although everything does fall into place and changes your web into fabric. The yarn, itself, doesn't change that much. Single ply silk, however, gets a bit fluffy because it has very little twist in comparison to plied yarn. 

One more thing....what does 20/2 or 60/2X2 mean, anyway? Let's use 10 Nm and 10/2 as examples. 10 Nm means that for 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs) of this particular yarn, you get 10,000 meters (10,936 yards) of yarn. When two strands of this 10 Nm yarn are twisted together you get 10/2 yarn. If it's four strands of 10 Nm yarn twisted together, you get 10/4 yarn. That makes 10/2 yarn double the thickness of 10 Nm yarn and 10/4 yarn four times as thick as 10 Nm yarn.  Ah, ok, this is beginning to make sense....so any number in front of Nm means you have that many thousand meters in 1 kilogram of that yarn. Then, you go one step further and add "/2" it means you have 2 strands of that particular yarn. Then what about 60/2X2? Let's take it apart, step by step.... The 60 is telling us that for 1 kilogram of this yarn, you get 60,000 meters of yarn. Add the "/2" and it means that you take 2 strands of that 60 Nm yarn and twist them together. That must mean that the "X2" doubles that which means take 2 strands made by twisting the 2 60 Nm together and twist those together. It's a total of 4 strands of 60 Nm but instead of twisting all four together, you twist pairs and then twist those together. Voila!