Working with Soie de Paris ( Other Filament Silk) If you’ve taken up stitching with Soie de Paris (or really any filament silk), once you understand that there is a difference between filament silk and most other threads you’ve stitched with, then you know that you have to treat the silk a little differently You can’t treat it the same way you treat cotton floss, wool, or even spun silk
Silk Hand Embroidery Thread 101: Getting Started with Silk Belle Soie from Classic Colorworks (Crescent Colours) is a 12-strand silk floss, hand-dyed, so there are variations in the colors (over-dyed as opposed to variegated) Rainbow Gallery – Splendor – 12 ply spun silk, fairly widely available in the US (many local needlework shops for cross stitch and needlepoint carry Rainbow Gallery)
A Glance at Silk Embroidery Threads – NeedlenThread. com What you see here is a combination of various weights of silk thread, with a few spools of Londonderry Linen threads mixed in here and there The project will also incorporate Soie d’Algier, which is a stranded silk (on skeins), and they didn’t quite make it into the photo All of the silks are imported into the US by Access Commodities
Silk Hand Embroidery Thread 101: Flat Silk - NeedlenThread. com Soie Trame is a finer flat filament silk from Au Ver a Soie, relatively new to the market I wrote about it here Japanese Embroidery Center sells a wonderful array of flat silks used in Japanese embroidery They have a nice color selection The silk is not quite as heavy as Soie Ovale, nor nearly as fine as Soie Trame or Pipers (discussed below)
Thread Conversion: Anchor, DMC, Soie dAlger - NeedlenThread. com One other conversion chart that I think is handy is this DMC to Soie d’Alger chart I’m a huge fan of Soie d’Alger, so this is a great chart to have, especially for designs that call for DMC, but that you’d like to kick up a notch to silk
Embroidery Threads: Comparison of Twisted Silks - NeedlenThread. com Hand embroidery worked in silk is beautiful, but there are so many silks out there to choose from! So here are some up-close photo comparisons of a few popular twisted silk threads: Soie Perlee, Trebizond, Soie Gobelins, and Soie de Paris Of the four silk threads mentioned above, Trebizond is the on
Silk Hand Embroidery Thread 101: Twisted Filament Silk Soie Gobelin is a fine, tightly twisted silk, used straight off the spool in one strand It has many hand embroidery applications, but I use it mainly for outlining and detail work in silk embroidery
Thread Talk: The Metallics You Want to Use! – NeedlenThread. com Au Ver a Soie is a silk thread company in France that’s best known here for their gorgeous line of high quality silks for hand (and machine) embroidery And – wow! – to my surprise, they also produces a fairly vast line of metallic threads
Thread Love: Au Ver a Soie Metallics - NeedlenThread. com The folks at Au Ver a Soie are thread engineers They’ve been engineering thread for hundreds of years They know how to make a thread that is going to work on a variety of fabrics And I am pretty sure that’s why their metallics hold up better for surface embroidery than most other metallics available today
Color Schemes Galore! Resources for Stitching Color - NeedlenThread. com For example, you might want to work with an Au Ver a Soie silk In that case, you’d take the DMC floss numbers and find a good conversion chart for Au Ver a Soie (from DMC to Soie d’Alger, for example), and pin down the converted color numbers