Patent ID: 7026048

Claim:
A yarn that is spun from a decorative mass of fiber fluff product that in turn is made by a method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a source of supply of staple fibers made of natural or synthetic textile fiber and arranged in continuous form as a pattern array of discrete side-by-side streams of different selected colors with the colors being uniform in each stream and comprising at least one base color and one contrasting color, (b) feeding the array stream of fibers into a carding operation wherein the fibers are brushed or carded from their input form into card or brush clothing to thereby only partially intermix fibers of at least two different colors in the bristles or wires of the card or brush clothing, (c) removing the accumulated fibers from the clothing to form a pillow or roving having a streaked appearance representative of the original colors with a partial intermixing and blending of the streaks of one color with those of another, and (d) accumulating and working the pillow or roving into a final fluff product comprising a tangled mass of loosely interlocked fibers somewhat resembling cotton candy and having randomly dispersed bands, streaks and islands of one color softly merging into another color to thereby produce a decorative randomized and interrupted candy-cane like appearance in the cotton-candy-like mass of final fiber fluff product.