French silk thread

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Re: French silk thread

Post by jcwillow777 » Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:32 am

Terrestrial12 wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:19 am It's a true floss and not so much a "thread"? I'm surprised to hear this because people seem to like it a lot. I suppose you can just tie in a length to wrap for your body and use regular tying thread for doing your hackle and head.
Ephemera make a silk thread and silk floss. I have only used the thread, not the floss. From what I have read it is thicker than Pearsall. I have been happy with it. Before finding out about other alternatives to Pearsall, I bought quite a bit of Ephemera, just in case they went out of business too. I have more than I will ever use, but glad of that.
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Re: French silk thread

Post by Oenophileangler » Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:41 pm

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From top to bottom, Ephemera Silk thread, Ephemera Silk floss, and Semperfli Silk thread.

Grossly, you can see that the Ephemera Floss is thicker than the two threads. But you can cord it up so that it is about the same size as the Semperfli Pure Silk thread, when tied on the hook.

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On the left is the Semperfli Pure Silk and on the right is the Ephemera Floss corded up tightly. The Semperfli product looks like it has sparse dubbing on it (it doesn't!!). Of course, I wouldn't use the Ephemera Floss as a tying thread though. I'm no expert, but that's not really the purpose of Floss.

I personally like the appearance of YLI silk thread more than Ephemera thread.
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YLI Silk thread on left, Ephemera Silk Thread on right

Pardon my crappy iphone pictures, I wanted to add to this "thread" in a timely manner.

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Re: French silk thread

Post by Oenophileangler » Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:43 pm

Also, the Ephemera Floss spools have only 30m. The thread has 100m.

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Re: French silk thread

Post by Terrestrial12 » Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:21 pm

Thank you for raking the time to post the photos! Yes I've bought one spool of the semperfli pure silk and it does the same thing. It's quite thick and just has a cheap, "dusty" texture. It doesn't feel like silk at all but more like cheap cotton string. I normally love semperfli products and think the are worth the extra money but they really missed the mark here. The problem I facing now is trying to find somewhere to buy YLI or kimono. I've found some kits on easy that will come in "fall" color schemes or "summer" or whatever for people who sew but never any place where I can pick colors individually.
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Re: French silk thread

Post by Terrestrial12 » Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:22 pm

Oh wow....just realized I had already mentioned my dislike for the pure silk in my previous comment....THAT'S EMBARRASSING 😳
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Re: French silk thread

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Re: French silk thread

Post by Oenophileangler » Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:15 pm

Does anyone know if the smaller "non-cone" Kimono Silk spools fit standard bobbins? I know that the cone spools are too big.

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Re: French silk thread

Post by letumgo » Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:51 pm

Dale - Yes, they will fit in a standard bobbin. The Kimono silk spools are slightly larger than a spool of UNI Thread, but not so big to be a problem. The spool in the bobbin is Kimono. UNI Thread spool for reference.
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Re: French silk thread

Post by Oenophileangler » Mon Jul 18, 2022 9:10 pm

Thanks, Ray! The picture of the Uni and Kimono spools is very useful.

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