wpi measure for Cebelia 40?

I'm trying to decide if I want to do a particular pattern with some lovely

100% silk I picked up from my LYS the other day. The wpi measure on the cones is 2/60. Is Cebelia comparable? Somehow I think my stuff is probably thinner than that. I may need to just buck up and pick a pattern (or design one) that would allow for some flexibility if I end up producing something too small. This silk is so thin, but so lovely that I can't wait to use it!

Anastasia

--trucking along in Latin, Old English, and two grad level writing/lit classes. May graduation, I hope!

WIP: A Shetland shawl from Sharon Miller's book, the Magickal Earth Shawl from AGOL, Alpine Lace (I think that's the name) from AGOL, a men's sweater vest for my sweetie, and I just finished a Japanese lace sweater for myself. Now comes the hard part....disciplining myself enough to block it and sew it together!

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Anastasia Luettecke
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Theoretically your 2/60 silk comes in at 30 meters per gram. How this compares to the Cebelia I can only guess as Lacis doesn't show Cebelia #40 available for sale and thus provides no yardage. An educated guess suggests a 50g ball of Cebelia #40 will contain ~725yd, or 700m, which may give 14m/g.

A direct comparison suggests that your silk is about half the size of the Cebelia #40 BUT cotton is denser than silk, has to be spun more tightly to hold together, and thus weighs more on a per-linear unit measurement.

Best answer: Swatch, see how you like your blocked silk swatch.

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Wooly

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