SOCKMATICIAN YARN—MONTAGNIER 4PLY

Deep, rich and dark, the Moody Hues, Sockmatician Edition rainbow kicks off with MONTAGNIER.

The Sockmatician Edition range is available in two different yarn weights, and both the 4ply and the DK come in the same ten colourways. This page, and the links on it, relates to the 4ply yarn. Click here for access to the DK-weight yarns.

Price: £8.50
Weight: 50g
Meterage: 178m (195yd)
Fibre Composition: Australian Merino, Black Alpaca, and Possum.
Tension: 28 sts x 36 rows / 10cm (4in) on 3.25mm needles.
(This is only a rough guide: your tension may vary. Change needle size accordingly to get gauge)

Made in NZ by Skeinz.com and SOCKMATICIAN (That's me!)

MONTAGNIER'S STORY

In the early 1980s, French virologist Luc Montagnier was working at the Pasteur Institute in France, with a team of researchers who were trying to identify the cause of AIDS, the mysterious killer disease that seemed to be targeting young gay men. He found the virus that would later become known as HIV while doing a lymph-node biopsy on a sample from a patient who had AIDS. This was in 1983.

In 2008, he and another scientist shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering and identifying the HIV virus, and paved the way for one of medicine's most extraordinary success stories: the treatment and control of HIV in the human body, to the point where I, today, as a man living with HIV, will have the same life expectancy as the rest of the general population, and I cannot pass the virus on to anyone else.

I am grateful to Luc Montagnier, and all those who have followed him, every single day.

IMPORTANT AND USEFUL INFORMATION

Before placing your order, please click the following links for useful and important information about the products available on this site, and about using the Sockmashop.

THE GENESIS OF THE SOCKMATICIAN EDITION COLOUR RANGE: IDEAS AND IDEALS

SHIPPING FEES EXPLAINED

*IMPORTANT* HOW TO USE THE SOCKMASHOP

*IMPORTANT* PLACING YOUR ORDER (YARN ONLY), AND HOW TO GET IT RIGHT!

A NOTE ON RECYCLED FIBRE, AND WHAT IT MEANS

A NOTE ON MONOCHROME DYEING

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