Noro Tsubame Yarn
16 colors in stock
#9 best seller in DK / Sport · Stocked since 2020
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16 colors of Noro Tsubame Yarn
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About Noro Tsubame Yarn
Tsubame Yarn by Noro is a single ply, multi-color, silk and wool blend with polyamide for strength. With 656 yards per 200g skein this soft and silky, self-striping yarn is perfect for light weight projects like sweaters, cardigans, shawls, wraps, afghans ...
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- Weight
- DK / Sport
- Fiber
- 50% Silk 25% Wool 25% Polyamide
- Skein
- 200g
- Yardage
- 656yds
- Needle size
- US 4 - 6
- Gauge
- 5½ - 6 sts per 1"
- Care
- Dry Clean
- Made in
- Japan
- Colors
- 16 available
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Substitutes for Noro Tsubame Yarn
Yarns at the same weight with a similar fibre and a similar yardage per gram, so a pattern written for Tsubame Yarn knits to gauge in them. Swatch first — every yarn drapes its own way.
Moonshine Fine Yarn
Same DK / Sport weight, shares the nylon and silk and wool, both untreated, so both hand-wash and both felt.
Moonshine Fine Hand Paints Yarn
Same DK / Sport weight, shares the nylon and silk and wool, both untreated, so both hand-wash and both felt.
Silky Wool Yarn
Same DK / Sport weight, shares the silk and wool, both untreated, so both hand-wash and both felt.
Zauberball Starke 6 Yarn
Same DK / Sport weight, shares the nylon and wool. Superwash where this yarn is not — it will not felt.
Arranmore Light Yarn
Same DK / Sport weight, shares the silk and wool, both untreated, so both hand-wash and both felt.
Simplicity Yarn
Same DK / Sport weight, shares the nylon and wool. Superwash where this yarn is not — it will not felt.
From the guides
- GuideNoro: which one is which?Kureyon, Silk Garden, Ito, Haunui, Madara, Tsubame, Kakigori — how Noro's yarns differ in fiber, weight, put-up and the way the color moves, which Noro is DK and which is worsted, and what to knit in each.
- GuideYarn brands we stock, and what each is known forThe 24 yarn and needle brands on our shelves, grouped by what they do best — hand-dyed merino, self-striping and gradient yarns, American and British wool, alpaca, luxury fibers, summer cottons and linens, needles — with the line to start with from each.
- GuideHow to substitute yarn in a patternHow to pick a yarn a pattern was not written for — matching gauge, yards per gram, fibre and construction — with the arithmetic for recalculating the number of skeins.
More from Noro
Noro yarn is spun in Japan under Eisaku Noro's eye, and it is unlike anything else on the shelf: long, slow colour changes fed into the spinner by hand, so a single ball knits its own stripes and no two balls read quite the same. Kureyon, the 100% wool original, and Silk Garden, its silk-mohair-lambswool sibling, are our two best-selling lines of any brand.
The newer lines stretch the idea: Ito is a 200 g wool cake with colour runs long enough for a whole sweater panel, Madara blends wool with silk and alpaca, Tsubame is a silk-wool DK, and Kakigori a cotton-silk for summer. The Haunui family — wool, wool-silk and wool-cotton — comes in large put-ups for blankets. Noro is thick-and-thin by design; knit a swatch and let the colour do the work.
Kureyon Yarn
Silk Garden Yarn
Madara Yarn
