At present, let’s check out 5 completely different wool needlework threads which can be accessible right now, and line them up subsequent to one another.
The 5 manufacturers we’re going to take a look at are Array (we already coated this one in depth), Bella Lusso, ThreadWorx, Renaissance Dyeing, and Merely Wool.
You’ll be able to see the 5 threads lined up collectively above. You’ll be able to learn an summary of all these threads on this earlier article, the place I launched them. It provides you with an thought of what they’re and the place they’re from.
All in all, they don’t look that completely different, besides that Bella Lusso and Merely Wool look finer than the opposite three.
Consider, too, that these images are zoomed in a bit, so you may see element on the threads. The drawback of that’s that you simply don’t essentially get an important view of the threads in “actual life dimension context,” all collectively.
So the distinction in weight of the threads (or thickness) comes throughout much more pronounced in these images.
We aren’t going to speak particularly concerning the Array thread (within the vivid inexperienced), as a result of I already devoted an entire article to that thread, which you’ll prepared about right here. It’s simply within the line up for the sake of comparability.
If you happen to bunch them collectively – effectively, most of them, for the reason that Merely Wool at nighttime inexperienced isn’t on this photograph above – they appear kind of comparable in dimension.
Nonetheless, you get the sense that the Bella Lusso (in blue) is barely finer. It appears much less fuzzy, and it has an extended, looser twist to it.
(I feel it is a enjoyable coloration mixture, by the best way, which is why I initially took the photograph!)
Utilizing the Bella Lusso within the blue because the fixed within the following images, you may see that it’s certainly finer in unstitched weight than the ThreadWorx (pictured above)…
…than the Renaissance Dyeing (pictured above)…
…however probably not finer in unstitched weight than the Merely Wool, which has a tighter twist and appears a bit finer than the Bella Lusso.
What’s unusual, when lining these threads up individually towards the Bella Lusso, is that ThreadWorx is seemingly constituted of the identical thread as Bella Lusso. (ThreadWorx and Bella Lusso are within the yellow-blue photograph.) ThreadWorx is dyed Bella Lusso, from what I’ve learn.
There will be a number of explanations for the apparent completely different within the threads as pictured right here. For one factor, I’m not evaluating each skein. The blue skein of Bella Lusso is probably not consultant of the entire line.
One other level: dyes have an effect on threads otherwise.
One other level: dealing with impacts threads otherwise.
And one other level: if I’ve seen nothing else in evaluating all these wool threads, the one factor that stands proud is that no wool threads are completely constant alongside any strand of wool taken from the skein. Ultimately, alongside the wool, you can find thicker sections and thinner sections, fuzzier sections and smoother sections. That is the character of wool threads.
However, apparently, with regards to stitching, they beautiful a lot all sew up kind of constantly to the typical eye.
Retaining in thoughts, once more, that these images are zoomed in, you may see right here that the Array (vivid inexperienced) and the Renaissance Dyeing (coral) play out to be the heavier stitched traces.
Bella Lusso, ThreadWorx, and Merely Wool find yourself being extra comparable in weight and barely finer than Array and Renaissance Dyeing.
Curiously, each the Merely Wool (darkish inexperienced on the underside) and the Renaissance Dyeing (coral) thinned out in the direction of the top of those quick stitched rows.
I’m fairly certain I didn’t change something in my technique of sewing – I sewed all of those on the similar time, over the identical variety of cloth threads, and (to my data), they’re constant in stress.
Nonetheless, you by no means know if one thing may have an effect on your thread stress with out your realizing it. Perhaps I began desirous about one thing else and misplaced my focus. Typically, the littlest issues can change the best way you’re doing one thing – dialog shifts, an audiobook turns into extra fascinating (or much less), some music kicks in that lifts your temper (or lowers it) – something like that may inadvertently have an effect on your stress in your stitches. However I did make an effort to be constant, and I’m fairly certain I used to be centered on that the entire time.
Anyway, these are very quick traces of sewing. The thread didn’t have an opportunity, actually, to appropriate itself, and coming on the finish of those quick traces, I feel that slight variation in weight is extra noticeable. In context, wouldn’t it be as noticeable? I doubt it.
In a Nutshell
The entire above threads have been nice sufficient to sew with. Personally, I appreciated the Bella Lusso finest.
However as we’ll see in our subsequent installment evaluating wool threads, the fine-ness of the Bella Lusso and the Merely Wool makes an enormous distinction whenever you’re filling with these threads!
Yow will discover extra data on different wool embroidery threads and consider extra up-close comparisons of these threads right here on this article index on the subject of Wool Embroidery Threads.
