Malabrigo Silkpaca

Baby alpaca and silk lace weight with incredible softness and a luminous sheen. Dreamy for shawls and delicate accessories.

What is Silkpaca?

Malabrigo Silkpaca is a lace from Malabrigo. Composition: 70% baby alpaca / 30% silk. One skein holds 420 m of yarn and weighs 50 g.

How the yarn behaves

Malabrigo Silkpaca is a two-ply laceweight yarn blending baby alpaca and mulberry silk. The alpaca brings warmth, softness and a subtle halo, while the silk adds a quiet sheen and good strength. Despite being a laceweight yarn, the two-ply construction makes it sturdy and well behaved, so it is ideal for intricate lace shawls, wraps, scarves and fine-gauge garments that block out beautifully. It can be held double for fingering-weight projects, and it crochets cleanly. Alpaca and silk both have very little elasticity, so the fabric drapes rather than stretches. Care: hand wash cool with mild detergent, do not wring, dry flat and block gently to bring out the pattern.

What is Silkpaca suitable for?

Shawls Accessories Lacework
Category
Lace
Weight
50 g / ball
Length
420 m / ball
Composition
70% baby alpaca / 30% silk
Season
all-season

Recommended tools

Needles
2.0 – 2.5 mm
Crochet hook
2.0 – 2.5 mm
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