Mallo Cotton Slub Weaving Yarn ~ Complete Set

I haven't used this color yet but it's beautiful in person. And I love to weave with Mallo yarn. It's soft and fulls beautifully when wet finished. It makes soft and absorbant towels.

The varying thickness adds nice texture to a pattern. I recently used it as the warp in an 8-shaft, leafy pattern for a pair of kitchen towels (Handweaving.net #80362). Gorgeous yarn!

I love the texture of the Mallo slub yarns. I converted a pattern for napkins in fir and lichen to kitchens towels and the color contrast is very nice.

I used four colors of Mallo (to weave kitchen towels for my two sisters, warping for two towels on a Schacht flip 20" rigid heddle (using a 12-dent heddle), with the warp using four colors, and the weft for each towel using two of the four--but not the same two colors, so each towel on the same warp was slightly different. Since Gist first came out with Mallo, I have purchased a number of the colors on different occasions. I realized I had all but four of the colors, so I decided to see how many different combinations of four colors I could do of my same towel design before I ran out of Mallo. I have woven 22 towels (and depleted my stash of Mallo), but I have yet to come up with a color combination that I have not liked. It has been so much fun to see how all the different color combinations work together, and the towels are so soft, absorbent, and bright. I can't wait to stock up again!

Mallo is a breeze to weave with, and the soft, slub texture is unlike any other yarn I’ve ever used. Like everyone else, I vote for more colors, please!