Stitching Fox in South Carolina now carries Silk Wrapped Purl. It looks like a coiled spring and is couched with the matching thread onto your canvas or cut into short lengths and attached like a bead if a bead was shaped like a U. Use the right side arrow to glimpse some of the colors available.
Silk wrapped purl is a thread created for stumpwork, particularly those adorable 17th Century reproduction caskets. These are some of the ways it can be used--
It comes in various thicknesses. Stitching Fox sells size 4 packaged with the matching couching thread.
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