A skien is the name given to the 'ball' of yarn created by the manufacturer. The size of a skein varies according to manufacturer. Lion brand, for example, makes 9 different types of wool yarn and their sizes vary from 1.75oz/98yds to 8oz/465yds.
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600 grams
A skein of wool can come in different weights. There is not a specific amount of wool needed in a skein.
A bale of wool. Or a skein of wool.
Skein is a non-standard length of spun fibre, which can be wool or any other fibre.
Skein
A bale of wool
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Yes, a small amount of wool yarn can be called a skein, especially if the fibre is rare and expensive, such as baby yak wool yarn.
Collective nouns for wool are a bale of wool or a skein of wool.
The term skein describes a loosely coiled, arbitrary length of some thread. It is NOT a unit of measure and hence has NO fixed length or weight.
The term 240 gr indicates the total weight of the skein of wool.
Wool, Yarn or thread :)
Yes, you change wool -- unless you find avariegated wool skein or set of them, that offer you the colours that you want.