What is meant by fancy yarn?

Is ply a fancy yarn?

Fancy yarn usually have a base or core yarn which is a conventional single, ply, cable yarn or multi filament; this yarn is combined with the effect or fancy yarn and the effect yarn can be held in place with a binding yarn as shown in Fig. … Different coloured fibres can be blended together then spun as one yarn.

What yarn is the softest?

Cashmere: The softest and fluffiest yarn of them all, but is also rather expensive and not that strong.