This thread is designed specifically for high quality tailors and we supply many of the Savile Row shops.
It is a synthetic thread designed to have the same visual appearance as silk thread but with greater strength and consistency to ensure that it is the best thread to use for reliable trouble free sewing.
High quality tailors use this thread because it is very strong and easy to work with. The pre-cut lengths provide the optimum length to work with, for each single arm stroke. Also, the threading of the needle is easy because the thread has just the correct stiffness to go easily through the eye of the needle.
Where all of the parts of the coat are joined by hand stitching, and the lining and interlining, decorative buttons, hook & eyes and Keska clips are attached by hand sewing, you are able to take 2 or 3 passes with the needle and then pull through the thread. The thread slides through, without puckering the lining or the fabric.
The skeins have a brass metal grommet at the top of the pack so they can hang near the workstation then you can just pull a precut length out of the appropriate color skein, and sew quickly.
The thread is supplied in skeins as follows:
Size
Metres per skein
Length of each piece (metre)
A
615
1.25
Colour Range – 40 colours available from the standard shade card. A more extensive shade card is available and these can be delivered to order (subject to a minimum quantity of skeins).
