Pipers' 90/2 Twisted Gloss Silk is a filament thread, and Brenda P
recently measured it at 30w/cm (it's not in the existing edition of
Threads for lace but should be in edition 6 when that comes out)
I'm making lace with that at the moment and it's lovely thread to work
with - much softer and more adaptable than the Guterman spun silks, it
will spread out to fill a bigger space or squash up to fit a smaller one.
Might be quite a slow process getting hold of some in Canada though -
Pipers' is a one-woman business and the silk is hand-reeled to order, so
there's usually a wait even without international post to contend with.
Beth
in a snowy Cheshire, NW England
Heather wrote:
I am looking for recommendations for a filiment silk thread (not spun
silk, I'm hoping to compare the two!) that is approximately the same
size as Gutterman silk 100/3 (28 wraps / cm) I am struggling mightily
with all the different terms around silk threads (floss silk? Twisted
seems promsing. Unboiled?)
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