Bienvenidos a Buenos Aires! Here is your first postcard from our Great South American Knitting Adventure with Nicky Epstein! Our whirlwind trip begins with our 49 ladies and 2 gents touring the mills of ASLANTRENDS, a super modern, all-encompassing mill located in the suburbs of BA! Here are a few inside peeks of how the mill operates. Francisco, with help from his son Marcos, took our group through the entire process of how yarns are manufactured.
There were huge bins of raw materials like this purple and blue blend pictured above. A machine takes the raw materials and spins them into yarn form. If the yarn is more complicated or stranded with another fiber, for instance, it goes through another series of spinners.
From there the yarn is dyed, dried, assembled into indiviual skeins, labeled, inspected for quality control and packed for export. ASLANTRENDS is a large, modern operation that exports an enormous quantity of yarn throughout the world each year--and many of their products are made right in this mill. As Nicky pointed out during the tour, this mill is especially unique because they implement all facets of the process--not just dying, for example. Thank you to our friends at ASLANTRENDS for the fascinating tour! Our group walked away with a better appreciation for all the work that goes into making their beautiful yarns that we love to knit!
