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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:21 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:12 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:06 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:50 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:16 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:43 am
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I can understand why it's so expensive; It's like self striping yarn but instead of just changing colors like K1C2's Paintbox or the everpresent Noro Kureyon it also changed textures, colors and fiber content.
If, as it claims, it is mostly handworked that means alot of sorting, blending and tying of short pieces of fiber. I noticed in one of the close ups that the silk has natural slubs in it, like raw silk fabric which creates interest (and raises the price). They also seem to sock in a few luxury fibers like angora, Alpaca, Mohair and Cashmere in the skeins which are also pricey. If you add in the fact that it's handpainted you can see why it's so expensive.
Still, I can get a yard of good silk for less than a half skein of that yarn, and I'm sure there is far more fiber in it. Prism looks like a luxury yarn for people who have lots of money and want to let the yarn do all of thier work for them.
One of the knitters I knit with went to NYC last weekend and visited a small new Japanese yarn store (which I cannot for the life of me remember the name, I'll see if I can find it later). While it didn't carry Prism, it did carry all handdyed luxury fibers: Silk, cashmere, egyptian cotton. A few of them were also handspun. She compared it to a visit to a sushi bar: lots of atmosphere, lots of wonderful things to look at but when you're done you have a high bill and not alot of stuff on your plate (and she even said they gave her a little plate-like dish to collect her yarn rather than a basket) She came back with 3 skeins of yarn, each of them 1/2 an ounce of fiber, tightly woven into little yarn-packs very much like sushi; and admitted that she dropped over $70 at the place. The yarns were beautiful... but not necesarily better than a good $7-8 skein of solidly made cotton or wool. She said she wouldn;t go there again, but the experience was worth the price once. Prism is probably much the same.
I like looking at it. I would love to get my hands on a skein just to feel it and look at it but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't buy it. I like my wool.
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:18 am
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:43 am
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