This is a starting point, not a promise.Knit a swatch before you commit the whole sweater.
Substitutes for Lang Yarns Alpaca Superlight
- weight
- lace
- thickness
- 796 m per 100 g
- put-up
- 25 g
- fibre
- 54% Alpaca, 24% Nylon, 22% Wool
- in Australia
- listed by 1 Australian shop we track
closest first
lace
· 796 m/100g
· 25g
· 54% Alpaca, 24% Nylon, 22% Wool
- nothing we can measure would feel different
lace
· 780 m/100g
· 25g
· 100% Polyester
- cooler
- more hard-wearing
- less soft next to skin
lace
· 840 m/100g
· 25g
· 55% Mohair, 25% Silk, 20% Wool
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- shinier
lace
· 800 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Alpaca
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- drapier, hanging softer
- softer next to skin
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 840 m/100g
· 25g
· 70% Mohair, 30% Silk
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- shinier
lace
· 840 m/100g
· 25g
· 70% Mohair, 30% Silk
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- shinier
lace
· 840 m/100g
· 25g
· 72% Mohair, 28% Silk
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- shinier
lace
· 840 m/100g
· 25g
· 72% Mohair, 28% Silk
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- shinier
lace
· 848 m/100g
· 25g
· 70% Mohair, 30% Silk
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- shinier
lace
· 848 m/100g
· 25g
· 69% Suri Alpaca, 31% Silk
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- drapier, hanging softer
- shinier
- softer next to skin
lace
· 740 m/100g
· 100g
· 80% Merino, 20% Silk
- springier
- sold in 100g put-ups, not 25g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
lace
· 848 m/100g
· 25g
· 88% Mohair, 12% Silk
- much fuzzier, with more halo
- shinier
how this was worked out
Thickness comes from metreage per 100 g, which is a measurement. Fibre behaviour - warmth, halo, springiness, drape - is scored per fibre and blended by proportion, so a merino and a Bluefaced Leicester read as near neighbours while a merino and a cotton do not, even at the same gauge. Where a record is thin, the match is discounted rather than quietly flattered, and the gap is named above.
Yardage is always rounded up. If we ever sell you the yarn and the number is short, the extra skein is on us, from your dye lot.