14 Pack Translucent Goldwork Couching Thread

14 Pack Translucent Goldwork Couching Thread

This 14-pack of Translucent Goldwork Couching Thread offers a versatile, high-quality solution for goldwork and embroidery projects. Each pack includes a full spectrum of colours: Honey, Ecru, White, Black, Brown, Terracotta, Purple, Coral, Maroon, Bottle Green, Leaf Green, Navy, Sky Blue, and Ocean.

Each reel contains 50 metres of fine polyester thread. The semi-translucent finish allows the thread to subtly adapt to the background fabric, ensuring discreet and professional couching. Ideal for securing a wide variety of metal wires and decorative threads without overpowering the design.

Summary

• 14 reels, 50m per reel
• Semi-translucent polyester thread
• Adapts to background fabric colour
• Wide range of coordinating colours
• Ideal for couching goldwork wires and threads

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Traditionally goldwork embroidery was worn on ecclesiastical vestments and church trappings i.e. alter frontals, pulpit falls etc. Also in Royal circles and rich aristocratic families, for them it was an ostentatious display of wealth and power.

The goldwork threads used to be pure gold and were flattened and wound around strands of animal and human hair, but because the gold was so brittle they were later wrapped around materials such as silk, animal gut, paper, or parchment. In the early days this was all done by hand, which made the cost phenomenal. The most renowned examples of English embroidery are the beautifully preserved St Cuthberts Stole and maniple which was made at the behest of Queen Aelfflaed about 901AD, it is covered completely in gold laid work and couched thread, it is displayed in Durham Cathedral.