DROPS

Alpaca

Name: DROPS Alpaca
Brand: DROPS

ball band: "sport"

100% alpaca

Sport

An all time favorite made purely from soft alpaca

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gauge

24 sts × 32 rows / 10 cm on 3 mm

spec

length / skein: 167 m
weight / skein: 50 g
needle: 3 mm

substitutes (3)

Ranked on stitch gauge, then yarn thickness, then fibre character.

Nord

DROPS45% alpaca, 30% polyamide, 25% wool

close match

gauge: 24 sts (same)
needle: 3 mm
skein: 170 m / 50 g

→ Same gauge, same length per gram, same fibre character — a straight swap on paper.

[weight group not set][same brand]

VILJA

FilcolanaSport100% alpaca

close match

gauge: 24 sts (same)
needle: 3 mm
skein: 165 m / 50 g

→ Same gauge, same length per gram, same fibre character — a straight swap on paper.

Sock Yarn

Isager40% alpaca, 40% wool, 20% nylon

close match

gauge: 24 sts (same)
needle: 3.5 mm
skein: 387 m / 100 g

→ Thinner per gram. Reaches this gauge on 3.5 mm rather than 3 mm.

[row gauge unknown — swatch first if the pattern counts rows not cm][weight group not set]

patterns matching this yarn (127)

full specification

brand: DROPS
name: Alpaca
weight group: Sport
group source: measured_label_disambiguated
ball band: sport
ply: 5
fibres: 100% alpaca
skein: 167 m / 50 g
gauge: 24 sts/32 rows @ 3 mm
care: Hand Wash max 30°C / Dry Flat / Feltable
superwash: —
made in: Peru
price: not in the database yet

Weight group is derived from measured gauge, not the brand's label — that is why a yarn labelled "aran / worsted" can sit in our Aran group while another brand's "worsted" lands in DK. Library: 1406 yarns · 42 brands · 135 without gauge · 276/1408 gauge rows missing row count.