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(sourced through Piper's Specialist Silks)
TESS silks are finer than normal Japanese silk or Chinese silk floss. They are perfect for fine hand embroidery, needlepainting, counted thread techniques and even cross stitch.
If you are familiar with DMC stranded cottons, Anchor stranded cottons, Anchor Stranded silks or Madeira stranded silks, you will be used to working in a single strand ... to achieve this familiar weight, simply treble a single strand of TESS. You have the added advantage that for very fine embroidery and needlepainting, you can reduce the gauge of your tread by using two or one strand. This gives you an enormous variety of effects achievable with just one silk! It is particularly easy to combine TESS silk with Kreinik blending filaments: as it is so fine the Kreinik filament and the TESS silk can use used together in smaller than usual needles, thus ensuring even greater ease of detailed working.You will find that to multiply up your strands to create a thicker silk, is much easier than splitting down the traditional Chinese or Japanese floss.
Price £1.75 per silk.
Each cop 80m 90 denier silk floss.
(Twisted black and white 75m 2/20)
all UK & EU sales are subject to VAT
True Embroideries (Helen's art embroidery Studio) stocks a range of beautiful pure sleave (fine floss) silk embroidery threads. We are proud to be able to supply these direct through Fritillary. Each cop carries 80m of 90 denier, untwisted high-sheen thread.
Silk has always been considered the Queen of fibres. During antiquity, sericulture - the breeding of silk worms and production of thread - was kept within China and guarded on pain of death, and the Silk Route became the stuff of legend and adventure. Eventually the secrets of sericulture were discovered by the West and introduced to Europe. In the Anglo Saxon and middle ages it was rare and expensive - and still the subject of romance in Tudor England, when Shakespeare referred to "sleave" silk - a fine, untwisted thread with a high shine.
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