[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Heather and tweed

[Yolanda Thompson]

>From Wikipedia:

In clothing, heather refers to a color effect created by mixing two or
more different colored fibers or yarns.[1][2] It is interwoven yarns
of mixed colors, and possibly the type of fiber, producing another
color.[3] It is typically used to mix multiple shades of grey or grey
with another color to produce a muted shade (e.g., heather green), but
any two colors can be mixed, including bright colors. A mixed fabric
color is achieved by using different colors of fiber and mixing them
together (a good example is a grey heather t-shirt). Black and white
fiber mixed will combine to give grey heather fiber.
On 11/11/23, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Speaking of color, can anyone explain to me what it means when a yarn color
> is heathered?  And how about tweed?
>
> I think that tweed means it has a main color with flecks of black, tan and
> maybe white scattered around.
>
> But then I sort of thought heathered was also flecks.
>
> I have a yarn which is brown heathered with "hints of raisin and
> raspberry".
> So I imagine it's brown with flecks of reds?
>
> Tracy
>
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