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A numbered skein icon giving the thickness category of a yarn.
Also known as: Yarn weight number, Number on a yarn label
A small skein shape with a number from 0 to 7. A Craft Yarn Council standard that puts a yarn into a thickness band — useful for substitution, and not a substitute for knitting a gauge swatch, which the standard itself says.
A symbol shaped like a skein of yarn containing a number from 0 to 7, placing the yarn in a standard thickness category from lace to jumbo.
Intended to make substitution possible across brands, since traditional names — 4-ply, worsted, DK, aran — mean different things in different countries and to different spinners.
A band rather than a measurement, and the standard says so: yarns within a category vary, and the recommended gauge range printed alongside is the more precise figure. Neither replaces knitting a swatch.
The category narrows the choice; only a gauge swatch settles it.
A small skein shape — a bundle wider at the ends than the middle — with a numeral inside it and a category name beneath.