[Tips Discussion] Silk thread

Hamsteren09 · 2009-05-30T17:51:43+00:00

The difference between flat silk and twisted silk. Here I use Japanese Embroidery Flat Silk as an example: The silk comes on 60 meters tubes of flat silk. One strand of silk is made up of 12 suga (filaments). For optimum shine the silk is used flat, strands can be split for finer threads or combined if a thicker thread is required. The thread can also be twisted. The above photo shows a tube of flat silk, a variety of threads, twisted and flat and (laying across the silk) a strand of DMC floss. The first three thre