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[firstfrost]

Another finished project!



I made this shawl a while ago for Heidi, and it was a fun pattern to play with, so I ended up picking up some more yarn to make another. Amusingly, the original was made from "sea silk" and this one is from "milk", both biosynthetics (though I guess sea silk has a lot of actual silk in it too, plus the biosynethic seacell). There are a lot of weird things people are making yarn out of nowadays.

cellulose:rayon
seaweed:seacell
casein:does not have a cute name yet? "milk protein yarn"

Comments

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

There is milk yarn? Wow, that's pretty cool. Do you know if it's cow's milk or sheep's milk?

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

The yarn itself doesn't say, but it seems likely to me that it's cow's milk, since you have to use it in bulk, and sheep's milk is a lot more expensive?

[nuclearpolymer.livejournal.com]

I would imagine you're right...but ever since i found out that people were making some drugs by genetically engineering rabbits and then milking them, I've been curious about non-cow milking for non-food purposes.