This is a starting point, not a promise.Knit a swatch before you commit the whole sweater.
Substitutes for Zakami Mammoth
- weight
- worsted
- thickness
- 166 m per 100 g
- put-up
- 100 g
- fibre
- 100% Bluefaced Leicester
- care
- superwash
- in Australia
- listed by 1 Australian shop we track
closest first
worsted
· 160 m/100g
· 100g
· 40% Wool, 40% Acrylic, 20% Alpaca
- more matte
worsted
· 160 m/100g
· 100g
· 100% Merino
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
worsted
· 160 m/100g
· 100g
· 100% Merino
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
worsted
· 164 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Merino
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 100g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
worsted
· 164 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Merino
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 100g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
worsted
· 164 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Merino
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 100g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
worsted
· 164 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Merino
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 100g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
worsted
· 156 m/100g
· 50g
· 65% Merino, 18% Alpaca, 8% Acrylic, 5% Silk, 4% Viscose
- less hard-wearing
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 100g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
worsted
· 165 m/100g
· 100g
· 100% Acrylic
- cooler
- less springy -- it will grow and not bounce back
- more matte
- less soft next to skin
worsted
· 180 m/100g
· 100g
· 100% Merino
- thinner: 180 m/100g against 166 -- expect a 8% difference in yardage needed
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- less hard-wearing
- more matte
worsted
· 170 m/100g
· 100g
· 80% Acrylic, 20% Wool
- more matte
- less soft next to skin
worsted
· 170 m/100g
· 50g
· 100% Wool
- stiffer, holding its shape more
- more matte
- less soft next to skin
- sold in 50g put-ups, not 100g -- check how many balls the pattern needs
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.