About Yarn

Yarn may be used undyed, or may be colored with natural or artificial dyes. Most yarns have a single uniform hue, but there is also a wide selection of variegated yarns:

heathered or tweed: yarn with flecks of different colored fiber

ombre: variegated yarn with light and dark shades of a single hue

multi-colored: variegated yarn with two or more distinct hues (a "parrot colorway" might have green, yellow and red)

self-striping: yarn dyed with lengths of color that will automatically create stripes in a knitted or crocheted object

marled: yarn made from strands of different-colored yarn twisted together, sometimes in closely-related hues