• 90% wool / 10% cotton
• 3 ply
• 1 oz balls
• Wool with contrasting flecks running through it. The cotton fleck is distinctive on the smooth wool yarn.

This yarn was first sold in Australia in 1936 as this newspaper article states,
These new colourings can be obtained in a variety of knitting wools including … Patons Knitting Wool and Catkin Fleck Yarn are new fancy knitting wools for the coming season.

Production stopped during World War 2 and started again in 1951. A newspaper story in 1951 says,

Catkin fleck,“ a flecked wool equivalent to three-ply, is back on the market for the first time since the war. It is in a range of 16 colors.