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Thread – Black Silk YLI
The black YLI silk thread is a 6-strand pure black silk floss in a 5-meter skein and can be used for blackwork embroidery. Thickness Rating for Blackwork: Very Fine
Thread – Black Silk YLI
The black YLI silk thread is a 6-strand pure black silk floss in a 5-meter skein and can be used for blackwork embroidery. Thickness Rating for Blackwork: Very Fine
$2.33 USDAdd to cart
Thread – DMC and Anchor Rayon Thread 5 Skeins
I am selling the 5 Skeins of DMC and Anchor Rayon Thread as a set.
Great for surface embroidery such as Brazilian.
All skeins are new, I purchased them for a kit I no longer sell.
1 Skein: 8 Meters (8.7 Yards)
Thread – DMC and Anchor Rayon Thread 5 Skeins
I am selling the 5 Skeins of DMC and Anchor Rayon Thread as a set.
Great for surface embroidery such as Brazilian.
All skeins are new, I purchased them for a kit I no longer sell.
1 Skein: 8 Meters (8.7 Yards)
$4.94 USDAdd to cart
Thread – DMC Cordonnet White No. 20 – 20 gram Ball
The white DMC Cordonnet No. 20, 100% cotton thread is used for the cord for Carrickmacross Lace embroidery. There are approximately 124 yards (114 meters) on the 20 gram ball.
Thread – DMC Cordonnet White No. 20 – 20 gram Ball
The white DMC Cordonnet No. 20, 100% cotton thread is used for the cord for Carrickmacross Lace embroidery. There are approximately 124 yards (114 meters) on the 20 gram ball.
$4.34 USDAdd to cart
Thread – Gutermann
Gutermann polyester sewing thread is used to sew down felt and crochet cotton and the majority of metal threads in goldwork embroidery. The polyester sewing thread is used over cotton or silk as it will not rot over time and is strong and not stretchy.
Yellow thread is used to sew down gold metal threads, grey thread for silver metal threads and brown for copper metal threads.
Thread – Gutermann
Gutermann polyester sewing thread is used to sew down felt and crochet cotton and the majority of metal threads in goldwork embroidery. The polyester sewing thread is used over cotton or silk as it will not rot over time and is strong and not stretchy.
Yellow thread is used to sew down gold metal threads, grey thread for silver metal threads and brown for copper metal threads.
$2.76 USDSelect options
Thread – Gutermann Black Fine Cotton
The black Gutermann fine 100% cotton thread can be used for blackwork embroidery.
Thickness Rating for Blackwork: Very Fine
Thread – Gutermann Black Fine Cotton
The black Gutermann fine 100% cotton thread can be used for blackwork embroidery.
Thickness Rating for Blackwork: Very Fine
$0.75 – $9.44 USDSelect options
Thread – Gutermann White Fine Cotton – 40 Meter Spool
The white Gutermann fine 100% cotton thread can be used for Carrickmacross Lace embroidery for couching down cord, working buttonhole bars, picos and net patterns. There are approximately 40 meters (43 yards) per spool.
Thread – Gutermann White Fine Cotton – 40 Meter Spool
The white Gutermann fine 100% cotton thread can be used for Carrickmacross Lace embroidery for couching down cord, working buttonhole bars, picos and net patterns. There are approximately 40 meters (43 yards) per spool.
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Thread – Kreinik #4 Metallic Braid Brown 2122 5 Meter
The Kreinik #4 metallic braid can be used to add sparkle to projects such as blackwork, canvas work, goldwork, Hapsburg lace and modern Jacobean. The metallic braids are synthetic so will not tarnish over time.
Spool Size: 5 Meters (5.4 Yards)
Thread – Kreinik #4 Metallic Braid Brown 2122 5 Meter
The Kreinik #4 metallic braid can be used to add sparkle to projects such as blackwork, canvas work, goldwork, Hapsburg lace and modern Jacobean. The metallic braids are synthetic so will not tarnish over time.
Spool Size: 5 Meters (5.4 Yards)
$1.11 USDAdd to cart
Thread – Kreinik #4 Metallic Braids
The Kreinik #4 metallic braid can be used to add sparkle to projects such as blackwork, canvas work, goldwork, Hapsburg lace and modern Jacobean. The metallic braids are synthetic so will not tarnish over time.
Spool Size: 11 Meters (12 Yards)
Thread – Kreinik #4 Metallic Braids
The Kreinik #4 metallic braid can be used to add sparkle to projects such as blackwork, canvas work, goldwork, Hapsburg lace and modern Jacobean. The metallic braids are synthetic so will not tarnish over time.
Spool Size: 11 Meters (12 Yards)
$1.11 – $4.73 USDSelect options
Thread – Kreinik 1/8th Inch Gold Metallic Ribbon 5 Meters
Kreinik Gold 002J 1/8th of an inch Ribbon: A lovely bright gold metallic ribbon used to embellish counted embroidery, surface embroidery and metal thread embroidery.
Couch down with Kreinik Gold 220J #4 Braid or Gold No. 1 Japan Thread.
Spool Size: 5 Meters (5.5 Yards)
Thread – Kreinik 1/8th Inch Gold Metallic Ribbon 5 Meters
Kreinik Gold 002J 1/8th of an inch Ribbon: A lovely bright gold metallic ribbon used to embellish counted embroidery, surface embroidery and metal thread embroidery.
Couch down with Kreinik Gold 220J #4 Braid or Gold No. 1 Japan Thread.
Spool Size: 5 Meters (5.5 Yards)
$4.34 USDAdd to cart
Thread – Red #321 DMC Embroidery Floss – 8 Meter Skein
The red #321 DMC embroidery floss is a 6 strand cotton thread that comes in a 8 meter skein.
Thread – Red #321 DMC Embroidery Floss – 8 Meter Skein
The red #321 DMC embroidery floss is a 6 strand cotton thread that comes in a 8 meter skein.
$0.20 USDAdd to cart
Thread – Silk Soie
Au ver A Soie is the manufacturer of fine silk thread and yarns in France since 1820.
I have two weights of the Soie silk threads which are great for sewing down metal threads.
Read More for which weight of silk thread to use on the metal threads.
Thread – Silk Soie
Au ver A Soie is the manufacturer of fine silk thread and yarns in France since 1820.
I have two weights of the Soie silk threads which are great for sewing down metal threads.
Read More for which weight of silk thread to use on the metal threads.
$5.13 – $6.71 USDSelect options
Thread – Silk Soie D’Alger
Au ver A Soie is the manufacturer of fine silk thread and yarns in France since 1820. Soie d’alger is a seven ply stranded silk, each strand is twisted. The silk comes in a 5 meter pull skein which means you can pull the thread out without removing the label.
I have dark yellow (gold), light yellow (gold), grey (silver), brown (copper), bright red, dark red and black which can be used for couching down metal threads and for silk shading when doing goldwork embroideries.
Thread – Silk Soie D’Alger
Au ver A Soie is the manufacturer of fine silk thread and yarns in France since 1820. Soie d’alger is a seven ply stranded silk, each strand is twisted. The silk comes in a 5 meter pull skein which means you can pull the thread out without removing the label.
I have dark yellow (gold), light yellow (gold), grey (silver), brown (copper), bright red, dark red and black which can be used for couching down metal threads and for silk shading when doing goldwork embroideries.
$5.92 USDSelect options
Tool – Pattern Pounce
The pattern pounce (pouncing tool) is a wooden tool with a piece of felt on the end. The round felt pad measures 1 1/4 inch (3 cm) wide.
See the listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pattern pounce is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
Tool – Pattern Pounce
The pattern pounce (pouncing tool) is a wooden tool with a piece of felt on the end. The round felt pad measures 1 1/4 inch (3 cm) wide.
See the listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pattern pounce is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
$9.48 USDSelect options
Tool – Pounce
I have black and grey pounce. Black pounce consists of finely ground up charcoal.
Grey pounce consists of finely ground up charcoal with flour added – not suitable for conservation embroidery.
One container of pounce will do at least 100 transfers on a 10 inch by 10 inch pricked design.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pounce is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
Tool – Pounce
I have black and grey pounce. Black pounce consists of finely ground up charcoal.
Grey pounce consists of finely ground up charcoal with flour added – not suitable for conservation embroidery.
One container of pounce will do at least 100 transfers on a 10 inch by 10 inch pricked design.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pounce is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
$9.48 USDSelect options
Tool – Pricker: Steel
The steel pricker is used to prick the lines on the velum tracing paper for the transfer method of prick and pounce. An embroidery needle is screwed into the end of the pricker and takes sizes No. 9 and No. 10 Crewel Needles.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pricker is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
Tool – Pricker: Steel
The steel pricker is used to prick the lines on the velum tracing paper for the transfer method of prick and pounce. An embroidery needle is screwed into the end of the pricker and takes sizes No. 9 and No. 10 Crewel Needles.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pricker is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
$11.85 USDAdd to cart
Tool – Pricker: Wooden
The hardwood wooden pricker is used to prick the lines on the velum tracing paper for the transfer method of prick and pounce. An embroidery needle is screwed into the brass end of the pricker and takes sizes No. 2 – No. 10 Crewel Needles.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pricker is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
Tool – Pricker: Wooden
The hardwood wooden pricker is used to prick the lines on the velum tracing paper for the transfer method of prick and pounce. An embroidery needle is screwed into the brass end of the pricker and takes sizes No. 2 – No. 10 Crewel Needles.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how the pricker is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
$14.22 USDAdd to cart
Transfer Gauze and Pen
An easy way to transfer a design from paper to fabric without the need of a light box.
Place the fine fabric gauze over your design and trace the design onto the the gauze using the water erasable pen (the blue ink of the pen will go through the fabric gauze and onto your design so take a photo-copy of your design if you do not want it to be touched with the blue ink).
Place fabric gauze with the traced design onto the fabric (no need to flip the design). Trace over the lines again and the blue ink goes through the fabric gauze to leave an outline of your design on the fabric.
Transfer Gauze and Pen
An easy way to transfer a design from paper to fabric without the need of a light box.
Place the fine fabric gauze over your design and trace the design onto the the gauze using the water erasable pen (the blue ink of the pen will go through the fabric gauze and onto your design so take a photo-copy of your design if you do not want it to be touched with the blue ink).
Place fabric gauze with the traced design onto the fabric (no need to flip the design). Trace over the lines again and the blue ink goes through the fabric gauze to leave an outline of your design on the fabric.
$12.60 USDAdd to cart
Transfer Pencil – Chalk
The blue chalk pencil is used to transfer a design from tracing paper to fabric.
Trace your design onto the velum tracing paper. Note that the design will be reversed when you iron the design onto the fabric.
Place the tracing paper with the design down against the cotton fabric and then iron evenly along the back of the tracing paper, applying firm pressure for about 6 to 8 pass-overs.
When you lift the tracing paper off the fabric you are left with a blue outline of your design. The transfer is permanent.
Transfer Pencil – Chalk
The blue chalk pencil is used to transfer a design from tracing paper to fabric.
Trace your design onto the velum tracing paper. Note that the design will be reversed when you iron the design onto the fabric.
Place the tracing paper with the design down against the cotton fabric and then iron evenly along the back of the tracing paper, applying firm pressure for about 6 to 8 pass-overs.
When you lift the tracing paper off the fabric you are left with a blue outline of your design. The transfer is permanent.
$4.70 USDRead more
Tropical Bird
The Tropical Bird is a 2-sided hand embroidery technique. The design is worked in surface embroidery stitches on a silk Dupioni fabric using Au Ver A Soie, Soie D’alger silk thread.
In the kit I provide a detailed instruction booklet with 19 pages of step-by-step diagrams and instructions on how to work each stitch which are reversible so that the back looks the same as the front.
Tropical Bird
The Tropical Bird is a 2-sided hand embroidery technique. The design is worked in surface embroidery stitches on a silk Dupioni fabric using Au Ver A Soie, Soie D’alger silk thread.
In the kit I provide a detailed instruction booklet with 19 pages of step-by-step diagrams and instructions on how to work each stitch which are reversible so that the back looks the same as the front.
$1.74 – $39.49 USDSelect options
Tropical Flower
The Tropical Flower is a 2-sided hand embroidery technique. The design is worked in surface embroidery stitches on a silk Dupioni fabric using Au Ver A Soie, Soie D’alger silk thread.
In the kit I provide a detailed instruction booklet with 15 pages of step-by-step diagrams and instructions on how to work each stitch which are reversible so that the back looks the same as the front.
Tropical Flower
The Tropical Flower is a 2-sided hand embroidery technique. The design is worked in surface embroidery stitches on a silk Dupioni fabric using Au Ver A Soie, Soie D’alger silk thread.
In the kit I provide a detailed instruction booklet with 15 pages of step-by-step diagrams and instructions on how to work each stitch which are reversible so that the back looks the same as the front.
$1.74 – $39.49 USDSelect options
Tweezers – Famore Precision Angled Tip
The Famore precision angled tweezers are a wonderful tool. The tweezers are smooth and comfortable to use, they are hot forged using German stainless steel and hand ground for precision and accuracy. This angled tweezers are great if you want more grip.
Great for taking out tacking threads in blackwork, manipulating metal threads in goldwork embroidery and removing unwanted threads in hand embroidery.
Tweezers Size
Length: 4.5 inches (11 1/4 cms)
Tweezers – Famore Precision Angled Tip
The Famore precision angled tweezers are a wonderful tool. The tweezers are smooth and comfortable to use, they are hot forged using German stainless steel and hand ground for precision and accuracy. This angled tweezers are great if you want more grip.
Great for taking out tacking threads in blackwork, manipulating metal threads in goldwork embroidery and removing unwanted threads in hand embroidery.
Tweezers Size
Length: 4.5 inches (11 1/4 cms)
$14.97 USDAdd to cart
Tweezers – Famore Precision Fine Point
The Famore precision fine point tweezers are a useful tool for your embroidery tool box. The tweezers are hot forged using German stainless steel and hand ground for precision and accuracy. These small tweezers are a useful tool for the needle worker.
Tweezers Size
Length: 3.5 inches (8 3/4 cms)
Tweezers – Famore Precision Fine Point
The Famore precision fine point tweezers are a useful tool for your embroidery tool box. The tweezers are hot forged using German stainless steel and hand ground for precision and accuracy. These small tweezers are a useful tool for the needle worker.
Tweezers Size
Length: 3.5 inches (8 3/4 cms)
$12.60 USDAdd to cart
Tweezers – Famore Precision Micro Tip
The Famore precision micro tip tweezers are a wonderful tool. The tweezers are smooth and comfortable to use, they are forged in Germany stainless steel and hand ground for precision and accuracy. This shorter length tweezers is perfect for small projects, where you need to get your fingers closer to the fabric for more accurate use.
Great for taking out tacking threads in blackwork, manipulating metal threads in goldwork embroidery and removing unwanted threads in hand embroidery.
Tweezers Size
Length: 3 inches
Tweezers – Famore Precision Micro Tip
The Famore precision micro tip tweezers are a wonderful tool. The tweezers are smooth and comfortable to use, they are forged in Germany stainless steel and hand ground for precision and accuracy. This shorter length tweezers is perfect for small projects, where you need to get your fingers closer to the fabric for more accurate use.
Great for taking out tacking threads in blackwork, manipulating metal threads in goldwork embroidery and removing unwanted threads in hand embroidery.
Tweezers Size
Length: 3 inches
$14.97 USDAdd to cart
Tweezers – Tooltron Rainbow Tweezers, Fine Tipped
The fine tip, small, tweezers are excellent tools for a wide range of purposes such as hand embroidery, beading and sewing. The tweezers make a great unpicking tools to grab those tiny threads your finger nails just can’t keep a hold of and easy to pinch closed.
The tweezers are a vital tool for Goldwork embroidery to hold, position and to manipulate metal threads and because they are small they are useful for intricate embroidery projects.
Tweezers Size
Length: 3 1/2 inches (9 cm)
Tweezers – Tooltron Rainbow Tweezers, Fine Tipped
The fine tip, small, tweezers are excellent tools for a wide range of purposes such as hand embroidery, beading and sewing. The tweezers make a great unpicking tools to grab those tiny threads your finger nails just can’t keep a hold of and easy to pinch closed.
The tweezers are a vital tool for Goldwork embroidery to hold, position and to manipulate metal threads and because they are small they are useful for intricate embroidery projects.
Tweezers Size
Length: 3 1/2 inches (9 cm)
$10.23 USDAdd to cart
Vellum – Tracing Paper
Gateway Vellum tracing paper is used for the prick and pounce method of transferring embroidery designs for surface embroidery onto fabric. It is thicker and more sturdy than regular tracing paper: 112 grams.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how vellum tracing is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
Vellum – Tracing Paper
Gateway Vellum tracing paper is used for the prick and pounce method of transferring embroidery designs for surface embroidery onto fabric. It is thicker and more sturdy than regular tracing paper: 112 grams.
See the sale listing for the prick and pounce set for information on how vellum tracing is used when doing the prick and pounce method of design transfer.
$0.32 – $0.95 USDSelect options
Wendy Innes Kit: Nature’s Jewel Hummingbird Stumpwork
Designed by the talented Wendy Innes of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Nature’s Jewel Stumpwork design is an intermediate level embroidery of a brilliant hummingbird having a feed of sweet nectar from delicate fuchsias.
Wendy Innes Kit: Nature’s Jewel Hummingbird Stumpwork
Designed by the talented Wendy Innes of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Nature’s Jewel Stumpwork design is an intermediate level embroidery of a brilliant hummingbird having a feed of sweet nectar from delicate fuchsias.
$109.58 – $123.80 USDSelect options
White Work – Portuguese
The Portuguese Whitework book is a fabulous book on an unusual technique.
Portuguese whitework is worked on 38 count linen with No. 8 Perle Cotton and it incorporates drawn/overcast bars, eyelets and surface embroidery stitches such as bullions, stem stitch and padded satin stitch. The book contains easy-to-follow step-by-step stitch instructions and some beautiful projects. There are small projects such as hanging ornaments to big projects such as table clothes.
White Work – Portuguese
The Portuguese Whitework book is a fabulous book on an unusual technique.
Portuguese whitework is worked on 38 count linen with No. 8 Perle Cotton and it incorporates drawn/overcast bars, eyelets and surface embroidery stitches such as bullions, stem stitch and padded satin stitch. The book contains easy-to-follow step-by-step stitch instructions and some beautiful projects. There are small projects such as hanging ornaments to big projects such as table clothes.
$31.55 USDAdd to cart
