Agaric - Casta Lace

Casta Lace is our first custom milled base, created exclusively for us! Oh and let me tell you, she's a beauty. This yarn is 50% Falkland Merino, 25% Gotland, & 25% Corriedale. 3 fabulous sheep breeds each adding their unique characteristics to this wonder wool! Falkland Merino gives a beautiful soft handle to the yarn, while the Gotland adds a grey-heathering and a slight halo from the crimpy fibres, and then Corriedale helps with squishability. Gotland also has incredible lustre which adds a stunning sheen! 

Casta is Scottish Gaelic for twisted or twined, perfectly capturing the two-ply high twist construction. It is a heavy lace weight, coming in at 650m per 100g skein. It can be used single strand of course, but it really comes alive when held together! Held together with one of our fluffy yarns (Coorie In Silk Mohair/Oosey Suri Silkpaca) it will give you a wonderful sport weight, so too will holding it together with itself give you a sport weight! When holding it double with itself it creates a fabric that is so beautiful and squishy yet still feels incredibly delicate which I love. Being designed to be held double stranded also gives you a whole realm of colour possibilities as you can marl them together, even fading out one strand at a time, or just stick with two strands of the same colourway.