Red Heart Pompadour Baby Yarn & Orchard Nylon

From Tcor on eBay:

Red Heart Pompadour Baby Yarn: It is 84% Virgin Wool/16% Rayon. It has the old RED HEART Foil sticker on the end of the skein for easier location. The color is 502, a baby blue with a shiny thread running through it, each skein is 3/4 oz.

and

One skein Vintage ORCHARD 1 ounce #391 White-100 Virgin "Staple Nylon"


Please note this is not the Jamie/Pompadour yarn from Lion Brand, though it describes very similarly with the shiny thread. Lion's is/was all acrylic. And is now itself discontinued. Irony! (Well maybe not.) Babysoft Pompadour is also all acrylic. And Baby Econo Pompadour Solid from Red Heart is also all man-made fibers, mostly orlon, but again with that metallic thread! So the Pompadour name has been used for baby yarn with shiny stuff for a long time, going back to the days before all-acrylic became the standard!

As for the Orchard yarn, it's possible that this became Lion Brand, but a little more detective work might be called for. Interesting that 100% "staple nylon" yarn was sold that way. Nylon is commonly mixed with coarser acrylic fibers or even wool to soften them; a lot of sock yarns and baby yarns include nylon for that reason. Lots of novelty "fur" yarns are 100% nylon, too.

Its touches like "Tangle-proof" that I cherish, looking at vintage yarn labels. Heck, I've recently struggled with a ball of yarn that was probably spun and skeined just this year and it tangled like mad, being 75% wool. "Ready to knit pull out skein - save time, no winding" also makes me think the yarn industry had only just recently migrated to just such pull skeins for certain yarns.

Considering I recently invested in a knitting swift to tackle the innumerable skeins of Takhi Cotton Classic, Fantasy Naturale-like cotton, Windsong and other yarns that are still sold in hanks because they don't hold together wound in balls...well, progress ain't all just one straight line.

Thank you, Tcor, for your photos and description!