Superfine Japanese Metallic Stitching Tapes

Description

These exquisite superfine Japanese  threads are another favourite new acquisition. They are coated in a very fine layer of real metal and thus have a delicious, sparkling sheen. They are soft, strong and being extremely fine, they stitch effectively directly through the fabric using a no. 26 chenille needle. They can therefore be used to work many surface embroidery stitches, giving them a delicate twinkling quality.

Use them with a laying tool such as a mellor or aficot to encourage them to sit flat and slide smoothly through the fabric. They can also be used for pleating in the same manner as rolled metal ‘plate’ but are much softer and therefore easier to handle. I have used them in the ferns in my Gawthorpe Needlecase.

The tapes come in 25m lengths.

For a closer look at the tapes, either click on the magnifying glass on the main picture, which will take you to a gallery of all the colours, or click on an individual name below.  The first 11 are new colours for 2020.

1. Black fleck metallic
2. Purple metallic
3. Emerald metallic
4. Green-gold fleck
5. Pale blue metallic
6. Red fleck matt
7. Orange metallic
8. Gold fleck metallic
9. Shimmering gold/silver
10. Silver fleck
11. Shimmering gold (50m)
12. Rose gold
13. Rich gold
14. Yellow gold
15. Pale gold
16. Red gold
17. Deep Red Gold
18. Very Pale Gold
19. Mid Gold
20. Silver