10 Skeins of Noro Silk Garden Wool-Mohair Blend Yarn 

Colorway #341 - Yokosuka (Blue-Burgundy-Gold) 

Fiber Content: 45% Silk, 45% Mohair, 10% Wool

Yardage: 108 yards per 50g Ball

Gauge: 4½-5 sts/inch on US #7-8 needles 

The sample Sweater is for illustration and is not included in this listing. 

Silk Garden has been an iconic Noro Yarn favorite since the 1980s.

Mrs. Knits has been a well-regarded expert on Noro Yarns since the 1990s. Each season, Noro releases new colors and styles of Silk Garden and beautiful patterns in Noro Magazine and downloadable PDFs.

Noro currently makes 3 variations of Silk Garden. The original Silk Garden DK, shown here, has come out with 6 new colors for Spring 2024. We have rolled them out by the skein on our website. We sell them as 10 packs at a discount here on eBay. The second is a DK version in single semi-solid colors called Silk Garden Solo.

For those unfamiliar “solo” does not mean “solid” exactly. It refers to semi-solid, meaning it has light vs dark shades (white) or tones (black) mixed in the color.

We also have a unique variation of “Silk Garden Sock,” which can be used for much more than just socks – you can also use it to replace the DK when you need a finer/lighter gauge project. See our store for details.

Noro’s sister yarn, Kureyon is similar but is 100% wool. We have the details on our other listings.

NOTE: Color variations are a normal design feature for this and most Noro yarns. What you receive may look different on the outside or be a different dye lot than one of the photos, but all colors in the swatch photo will be in the skein.  We will not accept returns based on those color variations unless you receive a colorway # other than the above. 

According to the artist Eisaku Noro: 

"If I make wool yarn, I use various lengths and thicknesses of wool fibers to try to reproduce the nature of sheep in our yarn, such as unevenness and coarseness. These natural states are intentionally left by using human hands and old machinery so that natural fibers are correctly processed. This is so knitters can feel nature more closely when knitting with Noro yarns.  

"Impurities in the raw materials are carefully removed by hand without chemical treatment, which is not good for the fibers or the environment. We also aim to reproduce the colors of nature in our yarns: leaves, for example, all look green, but they come in countless variations of green. By mixing colors, we can give our yarns more natural colors reminiscent of oceans, mountains, flowers, trees, and so on."