Unraveling Thread Types: From Sashiko to Embroidery Essentials

Button Craft Thread: A specialized, durable thread designed for securing buttons onto fabrics. It’s thicker than standard sewing thread, providing additional stability and ensuring a lasting bond between the button and the material.

Cotton Thread: Is made from 100% cotton and ideal for sewing light to medium weight fabrics, especially natural fibers like cotton fabric itself. It has a good amount of give, making it flexible and able to move with the fabric.

Crochet Cotton Thread: A specially formulated thread, usually made from mercerized cotton, used for crafting decorative crochet items like doilies, mandalas, and crochet jewelry. It produces a fine gauge fabric that can be stiffened with starch.

Linen Thread: Made from the fibers of the flax plant. It’s known for its exceptional strength, durability, and resistance to friction, making it perfect for projects that will be under a lot of stress, like buttonholes and seams

Metallic Thread: Used for decorative stitching and provides a sparkling effect. It’s made by twisting and bonding a fine metallic foil around a strong core, usually polyester, rayon, or nylon.

Perle Cotton Thread: A twisty cotton thread available in a variety of weights.

Polyester Wrapped Cotton Thread: Combines a polyester core with a cotton wrap. This blend offers the strength and durability of polyester with the natural look and heat resistance of cotton.

Sashiko Thread: A tightly twisted, heavy-weight cotton thread used in traditional Japanese sashiko embroidery. It’s known for its strength and softness, making it perfect for decorative and reinforcing stitches.

Silk Thread: Made from silk fibers, prized for its smooth texture and natural sheen; often used in high-end embroidery and sewing projects for a luxurious finish.

Soft Embroidery Cotton Thread: Also known as coton à broder or “cutwork thread,” is a soft, slightly glossy thread with a nice sheen. It’s used for various types of hand embroidery, especially satin stitching and long and short stitch.

Standard Polyester Thread: A strong, durable thread made from polyester fibers, commonly used for general sewing projects due to its strength, flexibility, and resistance to shrinking and stretching.

Stranded Cotton Thread: Also known as embroidery floss, is a six-stranded cotton thread that can be separated into individual strands. It’s widely used in hand embroidery for its versatility and range of colors.

Stranded Rayon Thread: A type of embroidery thread made from rayon. It’s known for its vibrant colors and sheen. Like stranded cotton, it can be separated into individual strands for varying thickness in embroidery.

Stranded Silk Thread: Similar to stranded cotton but made from silk, it can be separated into individual strands and is used for fine, detailed embroidery work.