Urth Yarns Bonmoher Lace Yarn

Pick up a skein of Bonmoher and the first thing you notice is the weight. It feels heavier in your hand than other lace mohair, and that is not an accident. Bonmoher is spun at 60% Super Kid Mohair (the finest grade of mohair fiber, taken from the first shearing of a young goat) and 40% silk, where the kid-silk category standard sits at 25 to 30 percent silk. That extra silk is what your fingers register, and it is why the yarn behaves the way it does on the needles, on the swatch, and on the body. Each 25 gram twisted hank holds 262 yards of lace weight yarn, hand-dyed in 30 colorways from quiet tonal solids to high-contrast multi-tonal storms.

What makes Bonmoher different from other mohair silk yarns

Most kid-silk lace yarns are built at a 70/30 or 75/25 mohair-to-silk ratio. Bonmoher tips the proportion toward silk, and the difference is the kind you can see across the room.

• More silk means a fabric that flows. Silk is denser and heavier than mohair. Pushing it from 25 percent to 40 percent gives your shawl a longer fall and your sweater a softer settle on the shoulders. The cloth moves with you instead of floating away from you. If you have ever finished a kid-silk shawl and wished it draped a touch more, this is the yarn that solves it.
• More silk means deeper, more luminous color. Silk drinks dye more readily than mohair. Because Bonmoher is hand-dyed and the silk core absorbs pigment more deeply than the mohair halo, every skein has a saturated undertone glowing through the fluff. Solids look multi-tonal in the right light. Multi-tonals look layered and three-dimensional.
• Super Kid Mohair, not just kid mohair. Super Kid is the very first shearing from a young goat, the softest and finest mohair the animal will ever produce. The halo blooms fuller. The hand stays buttery rather than scratchy, even at the loose gauges lace mohair patterns ask for. If mohair has bothered your neck before, this is the grade that tends not to.
• 30 hand-dyed colorways, weather-themed. The palette runs from soft tonals (Mist, Fog, Cirrus, Haze) to dramatic multi-tonals (Aurora, Eclipse, Tempest, Monsoon, Derecho). Hand-dyed means every skein is its own object. Order all the yarn for a project up front from the same dye lot, and your finished piece reads as one continuous color story.

When to reach for Bonmoher

For a shawl or wrap that earns compliments, a single strand on US 6 to US 8 needles produces an ethereal, cloud-textured fabric. The hand-dyed depth shows beautifully across simple stockinette and lace, and the extra silk keeps the wrap from feeling too insubstantial when you actually wear it. This is the yarn for the gift shawl that gets unwrapped slowly, then immediately put on.

For held-double knitting, the case is even stronger. Pairing a lace mohair with a fingering or DK base is one of the most popular techniques in modern knitting, and the silk content of the mohair quietly determines how the resulting fabric feels. A low-silk mohair adds halo but disappears into the base. Bonmoher's 40% silk adds halo and weight, sheen and substance. Held alongside an Urth fingering or DK, you get a sweater that has body, falls correctly on the shoulders, and catches light in a way a low-silk pairing simply cannot replicate.

Yarn details

• Weight: Lace / 0
• Fiber content: 60% Super Kid Mohair, 40% Silk
• Texture: Single ply, brushed halo
• Skein: 25 grams (0.88 ounces), twisted hank
• Yardage: 262 yards (240 meters)
• Recommended needle size: US 6 to US 8 (4mm to 5mm)
• Recommended hook size: US G-6 to H-8 (4mm to 5mm)
• Gauge: 18 to 22 stitches over 4 inches in stockinette
• Care: Hand wash cold, dry flat
• Dye type: Hand-dyed, lot variation expected

Every screen renders color differently, and the actual yarn may shift slightly from what appears here, especially for the deeper saturated shades and the multi-tonals. Hand-dyed yarns also vary skein to skein within a colorway, so for any project larger than a single skein, order all the yarn up front from the same dye lot and alternate skeins every two rows while knitting to blend any subtle differences smoothly across the finished piece.

Patterns and projects designed for Bonmoher

The Bon Melange Shawl Kit pairs Bonmoher with a coordinating Urth fingering weight in a layered held-double design built specifically to showcase what this yarn can do. The Bon Melange pattern is also available on its own if you already have a colorway in mind. For a wider browse, the lace weight yarn collection has every Paradise Fibers lace option in one place.