Lace weight yarn for shawls, wraps, and delicate knitting projects. Browse fine yarns from Ito, Jagger Spun, Urth Yarns, and more in silk, merino, wool, and linen. Lace weight gives you the highest yardage per skein and produces lightweight, open fabrics that show off stitch patterns beautifully. Gauge: 7-8 stitches per inch on US 0-2 needles.
Lace weight is the finest yarn weight, perfect for airy shawls and fine woven cloth. Shop Euroflax linen, Bockens cotton and linen, Lofty 8/2 cotton, mulberry and eri silk, silk noil, Bonmoher mohair silk, and our Zephira wool-silk cones.
Knitting or weaving with lace weight
Knitters often use US 2 to 6 needles so the openwork blooms after blocking, and mohair silk is often held with another yarn for a soft halo. Weavers love lace weight cotton and linen for towels and table linens. Always wet-block. It transforms the fabric.