Baby Yak Medium
Touching worsted-spun baby yak down is a unique experience: a precious fiber that creates a fabric different from anything else you have ever knitted before. Worsted-spun baby yak down yarn is a luxury fiber that will yield a fabric unlike anything you have knit before. Baby yak has a similar micron count around 17 microns to cashmere. It is warm and lustrous, lightweight and breathable, making it perfect through the seasons.
mYak's baby yak colors are soft, heathered, earth tones combined with dark neutrals and few saturated rich ones. Most yaks are of darker shade, and thus light colors are very rare and even more precious. Warmer than wool, and as soft as cashmere, our 100% baby yak is the right choice if you are looking for a unique, ethically sourced fiber good for you, for the environment and for the community that produce it.
mYak only dyes on the natural basis, no bleaching or decoloring. Each color will vary from season to season depending on the shade of the natural fibers, making it at times darker and at times lighter. This is the beauty of working with natural fibers and therefore the shade of the sample you see photographed here, might not always correspond to the shade we have in stock.
100% Baby Yak
50 / 1.76
117 / 128
3.75-5.00 mm (US 5-8) Worsted weight
mYak Yarns: A Company on a Mission
mYak was born of more than twenty years of living and working with the nomadic herders of the Tibetan Plateau.
Our activities are equally imbued with care for people, animals, and the environment as well as for the social and ethical values that characterize our entire chain.
The fiber is hand-combed from the soft undercoats without harming the animals.
Naturally Soft
Our yarns are spun from the finest fibers found on the Tibetan Plateau.
Ethically Sourced
100% traceable, we purchase our wools directly from nomadic Tibetan herders.
Expertly Crafted
Spun in the finest mills in the foothills of the Italian Alps, our yarns do not undergo any depigmentation process.