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March 1, 2023 NOTICE
Our backend search catalog is not in service at the moment and we are
working on an alternative. In the meantime, you can use the main thread order pages listed below.

COVID-19 UPDATEMost of our thread and ribbon suppliers are either overwhelmed with orders and having trouble keeping up, or having trouble getting base materials. So the wait can be 3-6 months for out of stock colors.
Hand-dyed thread vendors are taking 4-12 months to fill orders if they have base product to dye. But we continue to see our hit rate for most hand-dyed thread orders hover around 30% of what we request.
Effective 12/1/21 we will not be ordering Gentle Art Sampler threads until perhaps 2024. We had so many colors on back order and have been unable to get many for more than a year now. We will fill orders with what we have in stock, but those we do not have will be cancelled from your request. We hoped this situation would improve but so far that has not happened, in fact it's gotten to be more of an issue.
Effective 7/1/22 we are only taking orders for Gloriana 12-strand silk, Florimell, Tudor Silk and Silk Ribbons. All of the rest of threads we are not accepting orders at the present time since we don't stock most of them these days. Orders are taking 6-12 months and we are not able to get all of the items when we receive our orders. With the continued demand for threads, supply chain issues and staffing challenges we don't expect that to improve in the foreseeable future.
Effective 9/20/22 we are no longer ordering Baroque Silk or Soy Luster.. If you are looking for specific colors send us an e-mail and we can see if we have any of it in stock.
Be prepared that due to COVID-19 the disruption to the supply chain and vendors ability to supply product will continue into 2024 or even 2025. Please plan well ahead for your projects and know that everyone is doing the best they can under the circumstances, but there are no easy fixes in sight.

If you've not used our on-line catalog before we suggest you read our Ordering
Information page, which has details about using the
cart, estimated shipping costs, etc. You'll find
accessories, embellishments, fabrics and more items off
the main Catalog page.
We
do not have a real-time inventory system nor do we have plans to ever
implement one. The threads listed here are those that we typically carry
in the shop or special order regularly. Adding a thread to your
shopping cart does not imply we have it in stock. Please check with us
if knowing that before you order is critical. We are a brick and mortar
shop and our hours are posted at the bottom of the page.
While we have photos of many of the threads
we carry which you may use as a general reference, we do
not recommend making a color choice based solely on the
photos. Dyelots change over time, sometimes by a
substantial amount and photos are not updated with any
regularity. Monitors will also display color differently.
If you are trying to match a color, we suggest giving us a
reference like DMC, Anchor or Needlepoint Inc. to match
to. Then we can see what we have in current dyelots that
might work for you.

Single Dyelot?
For
most of our threads you can check mark a box to let us know that you
want them in a single dyelot (SDL). If you are doing a large piece and
you want to know the threads were dyed at the same time, it is the only
way to inform us that you need us to ensure that. Most thread companies
do not dyelot number their threads so we have to order enough to make
sure you get them in one dyelot. And for even those that do use dyelot
numbers, we can rarely re-order a specific dyelot. Some threads can be
wildly different with their dyelots, while others change very subtly.
Anchor and DMC rarely change but most of the hand-dyed threads change
quite a bit over time (even Au ver a Soie threads change quite a lot). So knowing when you place your order that the dyelot matters is most helpful to us.
If you need a thread we don't stock
either call us to see if we can special order it, or
add a note to the Special Instructions when you
checkout.
For threads marked Special Order if we don't
have them in stock we can order them.
For threads marked Special Order Only we do
not stock them at all, and order them as needed.
We also carry Color Cards for a number of threads
(there are none for hand-dyed threads). You'll find
them on our Color
Card page.
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Vendor |
Thread/Ribbon |
Access Commodities
Now with photos!
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Accentuate
(Madeira Supertwist)
Bijoux (Madeira Jewel Black
Core/White Core aka Lacquered Jewels)
Gilt Sylke
Twist
Trebizond
Londonderry Linen Thread
Ensembles de Soie Collections of lovely silk threads
Silk Tressage - Flat and Soutache Braids
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Anchor
Marlitt, Metallic
Perle, their overdyed floss and the Perle Cottons are Discontinued.
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Floss
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Appleton |
Crewel Wool &
Tapestry Wool |
Au Ver à Soie®
You can view photos of most of
our Au Ver à
Soie® threads! |
Soie d' Alger
Soie d'Alger - set of 635 colors @ 15% discount.
Soie 100/3
Soie de
Paris
Soie
Chenille (Special order only)
Soie
Gobelins
Soie Perlee
Soie Ovale
Soie Surfine
Silk Trame
Silk Flesh Tone Collections
Fine d'Aubusson
Wool
Metallic Braids (4, 8, 12, 16 & 32)
Sets of silks for Hands Across the Sea Samplers.
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Brown Paper Packages |
Silk &
Ivory and Trio
Stardust (Silk & Ivory
with a metallic twist) |
Caron Collection
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Watercolours
Wildflowers
(Special Order)
Wildflowers
- Solid (Special Order)
Waterlilies
Impressions
- Solid
Impressions
- Overdyed (Special Order Only)
Soie
Cristale
Snow
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Classic Colourworks
(previously known as Crescent Colours)
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Floss
Belle
Soie Hand-dyed
silk floss
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Dinky-Dyes |
Dinky-Dyes
Silk Floss
Dinky-Dyes
Silk Ribbon
Dinky-Dyes
Silk Perle (Silk perle in 3
different weights)
Dinky-Dyes
Jumbuck (50% silk/50% wool - Special Order) |
DMC
Rayon floss is completely
gone now.
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Floss Coloris Etoile Floss
Diamant
Variations
Floss & Perle #5
Satin Floss
Floche *** This is made by DMC Exclusively for Fleur de Paris, our distributor in Los Angeles. If you hear rumors that DMC is no longer making it, don't be dismayed - it is, but only for FDP. So we can still get it and we stock all the colors, although with COVID-19 some are taking us a few months to get back in stock.
Light
Effects (Metallic Floss)
Perle Cotton -
list of size 3, 5, 8 & 12
Perle
#5 in balls
Metallic
Perle #5
Metallic Embroidery
Thread (Fil Metallise)
Cutwork (Coton a Broder - we carry a few colors)
Infusions
- Memory Thread * DMC is no longer making this thread and we have almost none in stock. And our suppliers can no longer get it. Please contact us via e-mail if you're looking for a specific color. But check the wichelt.com website first as if they don't list it, it's gone.
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Fleur de Paris
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Bella Lusso® 100% Merino Wool
Now with Photos!
See ThreadworX below for a hand-dyed
version and Rainbow Gallery's new Glisten for a version twisted with a filament.
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Gentle Art, The
Effective 12/1/21 we are only filling orders for what we have in stock. We are suspending orders with this vendor due to their extreme backlog and shortage of thread.
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Sampler Threads
This page is for reference only. Please use the search box above. As we sell out of colors we will remove them from the searchable database. We do not keep a real time inventory in this online system so ordering it is not a guarantee we have it in stock.
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Gloriana
Gloriana orders are taking 4-6 months if they have the thread dyed when they ship our order. Be sure to allow a several month lead time for your projects.
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Silk Floss 12 strand silk
Florimell Au ver á Soie® hand-dyed Soie d'Alger
Tudor Silk thinner 12 strand for 45 and above count linen
Silk Ribbon 4mm, 7mm & 13mm
Vintage Silk Ribbon - Lacquered Gold for Willing Hands Virgin Queen's Stitching Wallet
For the present time we are not accepting orders for these threads: Duchess
Silk (Special Order)
Lorikeet
(Special Order)
Luminescence (Special Order)
Pashmina (Special order)
Princess Perle/Princess
Perle Petite (Special Order)
Silk
Chenille is discontinued and no longer available.
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Goldwork
Threads
We get thread for Goldwork from Access
Commodities & Kreinik. If you don't see something listed here you are looking for, please contact us.
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Passing Threads, Gold Wire & Silver Wire, Purls, Rococo, Russia Braid, Milliary, etc.
Silk
Wrapped Purl
Silk
Wrapped Gimp #2, #4 & #8
Silk Serpentine 
Silk Facette Gimp 
Crinkle Silk Gimp (gone now)
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Gumnuts
| Stars (stranded silk) * new color range 480-489 Sage, released 2019
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Kreinik
We no longer carry Bella, Mori or
Serica. We do have the color card so if
you need help with finding substitutes, please
contact us.
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Metallic Braids
(Blending Filament, #4, #8, #12, #16, #24, #32;
Regular, Easter Grass, Japan & Holographic
colors)
Metallic Ribbons (1/16",
1/8" & the new 1/4")
Cable
Cord
Easter Grass is
listed with the rest of the Metallic threads
(#9032)
Facets &
Petite Facets & Wired Facets
HotWire
Japan #5 & #7
Threads
Ombre
Couching
Thread
Real
Metal threads (Special Order)
Micro
Ice Chenille |
Londonderry Linen Thread |
Sizes 18/3,
30/3, 50/3 & 100/3 |
Misc (various vendor threads not listed elsewhere)
| Gutermann Invisible Thread (for beading)
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Needle
Necessities
Needle Necessities closed in 2007. These pages are
for reference only so you have some idea what a
color looked like.
You can find substitutes for many of the Overdyed
Floss colors from the threads by ThreadworX.
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Floss Reference page only
Perle Cotton #3, #5
& #8 Reference page
only
Rachel Reference
page only
Spring II Reference
page only
Velour Reference
page only
Charleston Reference
page only
Overdyed Wool Reference
page only
Overdyed
Kreinik #4, #8 & #12 Reference page only |
Needlepoint Inc. |
Silk Floss
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Planet
Earth
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Pepper Pot
6-ply silk
Essentials
We can order
any of the other Planet Earth threads that are still made. Furr, Fuz and Fun as well as Opal is gone. The sub for FFF is Rainbow Gallery Wisper.
Tonals Silk Ribbons The ribbons have been discontinued and we have very limited stock. Please send us an e-mail and we can see if we still have any of what you want in stock.
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Rainbow Gallery
We are adding photos of
all the Rainbow Gallery threads. As we get them
photographed we'll add them to the appropriate
page. |
Alpaca 18 now with photos!
Rainbow
Angora now with
photos!
Arctic
Rays now with photos!
Alabaster
Bravo®
Capri
Coronet Braid™
(sizes 4, 8, & 16) now
with photos!
Cresta
d'Oro® now with photos!
Crystal
Braid Elegance™
Encore!
Entice
Fancy Fur
Faux Fur® - Discontinued &
all supplies are gone; best sub is Fuzzy Stuff
Fiesta! - Discontinued &
all our supplies are gone
Flair® now with photos!
Fluffy Fleece - Most colors are discontinued but a few are still available Baby Fluffy
Fleece - Discontinued and our inventory is gone
Fuzzy
Stuff
Frosty Rays® &
Petite Frosty Rays® now
with photos!
Fyre
Werks® (regular or Soft
Sheen)
now with photos!
Glisten
(Bella Lusso® wool twisted with a filament - new Jan 2017 & with photos)
Gold
Rush 14™ now with
photos!
Variegated Gold Rush 14™ now with
photos!
Gold
Rush 18™ now with
photos!
Gold
Rush XS™
Grandeur™
Mandarin Floss
now with photos!
Neon Rays® now with photos! & Neon
Rays®+
Nordic
Gold®
Overture®
Panache
Patent Leather & Patent Leather 2 - DISC
Rainbow Linen
Rainbow Persian (this is Fleur de Paris Anahera wool on cards)
Rainbow Tweed
Santa's Beard & Suit® - Discontinued &
all supplies are gone; best sub Angora
Silk Lamé Braid
(13, 18 & Petite)
& Silk Lamé Plus (ribbon) 
Sparkle!
Braid
Sparkle Rays & Petite
Sparkle Rays
Splendor® now with photos!
Splendor
Silk Ribbon
Subtlety™ - Discontinued and supplies are limited
Super-Suede
Treasure Braid ™
(sizes 4,
8,
12
,16
& Petite
now with photos!)
Treasure Ribbon Treasure Ribbon Petite now with photos!
Tiara®
Very Velvet™ & Petite Very Velvet™
Water 'N Ice
Winter
Wisper now with photos!
Zoo Eyes - DISC - sub with LB300 or SL300 Silk Lame Braid
The threads below have been Discontinued by Rainbow Gallery and we did not stock them. put a note in the comments if you are looking for a color Rainbow Gallery might still have (order in mutliples of 6)
24 Karats Rainbow
Cashmere Designer's
Dream Gold
Rush 12™ Hi-Lights Patina®
Pebbly Perle®
Plastic Canvas 7
Plastic Canvas 10
Precious Metals™ Razzle-Dazzle 6®
Ribbon Rays
Silk & Cream Treasure Chest
Ultra-Suede® |
Sajou
Sajou makes mostly sewing threads but they also have two excellent threads for needlework.
| Silk Perle Metallic (Metalised polyester) |
Silk Road Fibers
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Straw Silk |
Thread Gatherer
If you are looking for a thread not listed
here, contact us and we'll see if can order it for
you.
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Silk 'n Colors (12 strand
silk floss - Special Order)
Silken Ribbon
(4mm, 7mm - Special Order)
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ThreadworX
We stock ThreadworX floss in all
colors and most of their other threads. We do not
currently list the Vineyard Merino in the online
catalog but will be adding it - ask us if you need a
color ordered.
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Overdyed Floss
Expressions
(same base thread as SpringII)
Hand-Dyed Vineyard Silk
Legacy Collection
(replacement for Charleston) Hand-dyed Kreinik Micro Ice Chenille (new for 2018)
Hand-Dyed Kreinik Braid
Pearl Cotton (#3, 5, 8 & 12)
Hand-Dyed Bella Lusso® |
Weeks Dye Works
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Floss
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Wiltex Threads
We stock the Classic and special order the Tone-on-Tone
and Merino. Merino Strandable and Shimmer are no longer made and we have limited supplies of them. Send us an e-mail if you are looking for a specific color.
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Vineyard Silk -
Classic
Vineyard Silk -
Tone-on-Tone (Special
Order)
Vineyard Merino (Special Order)
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YLI
We stock a number of colors of Ribbon Floss
but do Special Order any of them.
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Ribbon Floss
Regular, Metallic, Shimmer Blend, Super Shimmer
Blend, Night Shimmer Blend & Seasons Shimmer
Blend (Special Order) |
For all
other threads, check our Thread
Inventory page, where you enter the
color name or number. Or give us a call.
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Shopping Cart Note
If you are unable to add threads
using the master pages above, try using the search box. Each uses a
different method to add to the cart. We are working with our provider to
try to track down the issues but so far we have been unable to
reproduce the problems reliably enough to get to the bottom of the
problem. If you can e-mail us with your OS version, Browser type and and
version and what page(s) you had problem with it will help us in our
debugging efforts.
If you run into an error you can't work around you can always call us to place your
order over the phone or just e-mail us your list and we can handle your
order that way.
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