------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:11:19 -0700 From: Marjorie Wilser <the3t...@gmail.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Subject: [h-cost] Thread- reluctant switcher needs suggestions Message-ID: <bec82a77-4330-4c05-88f9-ebd433cb6...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
My favorite thread has been discontinued without so much as a peep. I am preternaturally p.o'd at the venerable Coats & Clark, but now I need to switch threads. My old favorite was the sometimes deingrated Coats & Clark cotton- wrapped polyester. It had the shine of cotton and the strength of polyester. Coats is now producing it under the same name but it's all polyester. Ideas? I know some folks out there are thread snobs, but I just want something that's (a) available!! and (b) will hold up. A little (c) affordability and (d) good color range wouldn't hurt either. A basic, workhorse thread!! Second question: how do you match thread to fabric if you can't actually *compare* them in a store? ==Marjorie Wilser I use Guterman, but that is mostly because it is the only 'brand' name thread that seems to be readily available around here. I use either the 100% cotton or the 100% silk, but then I am mostly doing hand sewing not machine sewing these days. As for the second question, take a little snip of fabric with you when you go to buy the thread. Claire ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume End of h-costume Digest, Vol 11, Issue 103 ****************************************** _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
