Reed is the smooth, suave linen fiber that's totally changed my mind about knitting with linen. When Shibui introduced this yarn, I kept touching it and thinking; Wow, this is linen? Really? It's so smooth - so soft -- so silky. How can this be? The answer is in the construction. Rather than being a traditional plied yarn, Reed is a fine chainette that creates suppleness and loft in a fiber that lacks both. This fingering weight yarn that takes advantage of linen's crispness but tempers it into a lovely smooth fiber that has totally seduced me. Reed, you are my kind of fiber...