Thanks for all the many good ideas. I was not really thinking that this would be a grail like search. How amazing! Mind you, I live in a highly populated area where almost anything is available. On top of that, I live in an area that characterized as the Embroidery Capital of the World, and that refers to the machine embroidery industry of New Jersey. It is also home to the US headquarters of DMC in Kearny, NJ. Coats and Clark opened its first US plant in Newark in 1866. The thought that I would have to mail order DMC number 50 machine embroidery thread from the various sources, in Colorado, Maine, etc. is amazing. I just called the Paramus, NJ, Sewing Center, a business specializing in machine embroidery machines, where for the first time I encountered someone who actually knows of the thread. He claims it is an item that I would probably have to go "into the city", meaning NY, for. He says it is very low volume and that it wouldn't pay for him to carry it. One truly wonders why it is worthwhile to DMC to publish a beautiful full color brochure with all 132 colors for the thread when it is so low volume as to be virtually unobtainable other than by mail order. It just seems so odd to have to pay shipping costs on a spool of thread that costs about 4 dollars and doesn't seem all that special. As Bev suggests, I should probably find some 100% cotton thread that is obtainable in a fabric store. Maybe I can find the Mettler that she refers to. A lot of stores here seem to carry Coats and Clark. Maybe they have a 100% cotton thread in a lot of colors. What are other people using now instead of Madiera Tanne 50 for colors? Devon
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