Sewing threads - decorative, metallised, elastic, polyester, for sewing, stretch threads, overlock

One of the basic materials essential in tailoring is thread. It determines how the fabric will be stitched, and often also how it will look.

Materials can be sewn together by matching the thread colour to the shade of the fabric, or quite the opposite: by using contrast. It all depends on what visual effect we want to achieve. The most important thing, however, is that the thread is durable, does not fade in the wash and does not change colour.

In our haberdashery wholesale store we offer our customers sewing threads of the highest quality and in several dozen different colours and made from several materials. With us you will find:

•    cotton threads,
• polyester threads,
•    elastic threads,
•    metallised threads,
•    stretch threads.

In our tailoring shop our customers can buy single-colour threads, but we also have thread sets with a full range of colours. Sewing threads, as manufacturers declare, must be strong and smooth and should not shrink during use or washing, so as not to distort the fabric in this way. The most important parameters worth considering when buying threads are:

•    the raw material, i.e. the material from which the threads are made,
•    the thickness of the thread appropriate to the material that will be sewn with it; thick materials require thick threads, and when sewing delicate fabrics, e.g. curtains, it is better to use thinner threads,
•    strength. The threads must last as long as the material that is sewn with them,
•    degree of unevenness. They should be equally smooth along their entire length,
•    elasticity,
•    twist, i.e. the number of turns per specific unit of thread length. Excessive twist may cause the formation of knots, loops and thickened areas which prevent correct stitch formation,
•    direction of twist,

In most single-needle lockstitch machines and other sewing machines, right-twisted threads are used, because the right-hand twist causes the threads to separate during the formation of stitches.