# What Is Wellness Yarn? > Wellness yarn is the plant-based yarn a mill knits or weaves. Counts differ by category: 40/2 hemp-lyocell, US hemp with Supima, or 24s hemp/wool. *Published 2026-10-05 · tags: wellness yarn, yarn count, mills* **What is wellness yarn?** Wellness yarn is plant-based yarn a mill knits or weaves into cloth. It is not polyester or nylon filament. Imperium sells it as 40/2 hemp-lyocell, US hemp with Supima, or 24s hemp/wool. --- Wellness yarn is the package a mill buys before anyone has a garment. It is spun or plied plant fiber on a cone, not the finished cloth and not a slogan on a hangtag. A wellness yarn has no polyester or nylon filament in the fiber, so the cloth made from it does not start with plastic microfiber already in the strand. [NOAA](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/microplastics.html) is the definition of that plastic debris. The yarn is where a brand either specifies cellulose or specifies a polymer. [Imperium Fiber](/) sells wellness yarn greige or dyed, in the counts each category actually runs. Athletic and swim programs center on plied 40/2 hemp-lyocell. Home programs spin US-grown hemp with Supima cotton. Outerwear starts at 24s hemp/wool. The cloth those yarns become is [wellness fabric](/learn/what-is-wellness-fabric-for-apparel). The fiber story under both is [the world's first wellness fiber for textiles](/learn/imperium-fiber-worlds-first-wellness-fiber). Formats are in [greige and dyed yarn and fabric](/learn/imperium-yarn-and-fabric-greige-and-dyed). More reading is in the [Journal](/learn). ## What Wellness Yarn Is Not Wellness yarn is not a single count with three names. A 40/2 hemp-lyocell cone and a 24s hemp/wool cone do different jobs. Calling both "the yarn" without the count is how sourcing teams order the wrong staple. It is also not a 100 percent Supima ticket. Where Supima appears, it is American extra-long-staple cotton spun with US-grown hemp, which [Supima](https://supima.com/the-cotton) describes as a licensed cotton, not a hemp brand. It is not a medical claim. The yarn does not treat a condition. It is a material substitution: plant fiber instead of petroleum filament, with the performance job written into the count and the ply. [EPA](https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters) programs care about synthetic debris in water. A wellness yarn that never contained that filament does not add polyester or nylon fragments at the spinning step. Elastane, when a knit needs recovery, is disclosed by percentage on athletic and swim specs. It is not hidden inside the yarn name. The wellness yarn claim covers the hemp-lyocell, hemp/Supima, or hemp/wool body. It does not pretend a stretch aid is cellulose. ## Which Wellness Yarn Fits Which Mill The right question on a tech pack is which wellness yarn, not whether yarn in general is "clean." These are the three purchases, and the articles that spec them. ### Wellness yarn for activewear and swim [Wellness yarn for activewear](/learn/wellness-yarn-for-activewear-knits) is one plied 40/2 hemp-lyocell, Ne 20 resultant. Compression changes with the knit, not with a second fiber purchase. [Wellness yarn for swimwear](/learn/wellness-yarn-for-swimwear-knits) uses that same plied count because wet strength and low torque come from the ply. The nylon article that already frames this swap is [replacing nylon fabric with hemp-lyocell](/learn/replacing-nylon-fabric-with-hemp-lyocell-same-great-strength-no-microplastics). The polyester twin is [the natural alternative to polyester for athletic wear](/learn/natural-alternative-to-polyester-for-athletic-wear). ### Wellness yarn for home textiles [Wellness yarn for home textiles](/learn/wellness-yarn-for-home-textiles) is US-grown hemp spun with Supima on a cotton system. Counts already published for that frame include 24s/1, 38s/1, and fine counts around 40s/1. GSM is not the yarn. [What GSM 24s/1 and 38s/1 can produce](/learn/gsm-from-24s-38s-cotton-hemp-yarn) and [120–200 thread count bed linen](/learn/cotton-hemp-yarn-120-200-tc-bed-linen) are the cloth arithmetic. Do not spec this wellness yarn as a legging yarn. Athletic recovery is the hemp-lyocell program. ### Wellness yarn for outerwear [Wellness yarn for outerwear](/learn/wellness-yarn-for-outerwear-layers) starts at 24s hemp/wool. The wool brings thermal insulation and a soft hand. The hemp brings strength at seams and a lower fiber cost than wool-only cloth. That yarn is not a swim ply and not a sheet count. [USDA hemp rules](https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/hemp) still govern the hemp acre. They do not set the wool ratio. The mill writes that ratio on the ticket. ## How to Buy Wellness Yarn Without Mixing Programs Write the category, the count, and greige or dyed on the request. A cone that arrives as the wrong program cannot be knitted into the other story. Sampling quantities exist before a production run. MOQs vary by count and color. ### Tie the ticket to a published comparison If the deck says polyester, the yarn page that carries the substitution is [wellness yarn instead of polyester](/learn/wellness-yarn-instead-of-polyester), next to [does wearing polyester shed microplastics](/learn/does-wearing-polyester-shed-microplastics). If the deck says nylon, use [wellness yarn instead of nylon](/learn/wellness-yarn-instead-of-nylon) beside [a natural alternative to nylon for athletic wear](/learn/natural-alternative-to-nylon-for-athletic-wear). The yarn claim should point at those pages, not replace them. ### Keep the standard on the lot Imperium yarn is graded against the [HFGA US Hemp Textile Standard](/standards), with a restricted-substance screen. That is the document a compliance lead can file. A wellness yarn brochure that skips the count and the standard is not a spec. ### Send the silhouette with the sample request Tell the category, the garment, and the count. Athletic and swim samples are 40/2 hemp-lyocell from [athletic wear](/products/athletic-wear) and [swimwear](/products/swimwear). Home samples are US hemp with Supima from [home goods](/products/home-goods). Outerwear samples start at 24s from [outerwear](/products/outerwear). Write hello@heartland.io or use the contact page. The privacy toolkit for a passport on a lot is [MATA](https://mata.network). The site is part of a [Rust remake of the web](https://remadewithrust.com). Turning this journal into a local retrieval set is what [RAG Converter](https://ragconverter.com) is for. --- Source: https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/what-is-wellness-yarn-for-textiles/ HTML version: https://imperiumfiber.com/learn/what-is-wellness-yarn-for-textiles/