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Top Thread


 

Advanced Trilobal Quilting Thread

Fiber Type: Polyester - Trilobal
Fiber Size: No. 40

Features & Benefits:

  • Glide has an elongation (stretch) average of 17-20%. Leading competitive products have elongation averages of 20-30%.
  • Lower elongation (stretch) levels result in the elimination, or significant reduction in looping and puckering problems.
  • A tighter range in elongation from spool to spool and color to color allows the operator to embroider different colors without making tension adjustments.
  • Lower elongation also allows the operator to back off on tension right from the first stitch.



 

Long-Arm Quilting, general sewing and light-weight garments.

Fiber Type: Cotton - Egyptian Long-Staple Mercerized
Fiber Size: Tex 27 (47/3)


Features & Benefits:

  • Ideal for purists who prefer cotton.
  • Excellent sewability and designed for free motion, high speed multi-directional techniques, or general sewing for long-arm quilting and home sewing machines.
  • Superior strength, low-lint, and nice luster.



 

Quilting, general sewing and light-weight garments.

Fiber Type: Polyester - Core Spun
Fiber Size: Tex 
30 (35/2)   


Features & Benefits:

  • Looks like cotton, but has all the benefits of polyester
  • Stronger per size than spun poly threads
  • Excellent Sewing Performance
  • Works well on multi-directional and high-speed sewing operations
  • Excellent colorfastness
  • Good resistance to abrasion and chemicals
  • Available in popular colors along with matching ready-wound bobbin colors
  • 3,000 yards per spool



Glide Embroidery Thread

 

Fil-Tec is proud to offer Glisten, a new metallic rayon that shines on and off your machine!

Fiber Type: Metallic Film, Rayon Core
Fiber Size:  Tex 27

Features & Benefits:

  • Beautiful appearance as matching color of core yarn and metallic film.
  • Glisten has a specialized finish applied to its surface in order to make it extra soft.
  • Our soft finish reduces thread breaks which reduces downtime.



 

Variegated Cotton Machine Quilting Thread

Fiber Type: Cotton - Egyptian Long-Staple Mercerized Variegated
Fiber Size: Tex 40 (40/3)
      

Features & Benefits:

  • Ideal for Long-Arm quilters
  • 3,000 yds/spool
  • Smooth and Soft
  • Virtually lint-free



 

Variegated Polyester Machine Sewing Thread

Fiber Type: Polyester - Trilobal Variegated
Fiber Size: No. 40


Features & Benefits:

  • For embroidery, quilting, embellishing, decorative, applique’ and thread painting
  • 1” Color Breaks
  • Colorfast and Washable




Magnetic Core, Pre-wound Bobbins


 

Description: Magnetic core cotton pre-wound bobbin.

Fiber Type: Cotton - Egyptian Long-Staple Mercerized
Fiber Size: Tex 12
                         

Features & Benefits:

  • Runs clean, and lint free for uninterrupted sewing
  • Washable and colorfast
  • The patented magnetic core provides flawless tension from the beginning to the end
  • Uniform tension equals higher stitch quality and results in more stitches per bobbin with less scrap and fewer bobbin changes
  • Available in white, black and four leading neutral shades
Some metal bobbin cases contain a backlash spring in the bottom of the case. This backlash spring must be removed.


 

Description: Magnetic core polyester pre-wound bobbin

Fiber Type:
Polyester

Fiber Size: Tex 12
                        

Features & Benefits:

  • Patented magnetic core creates unmatched tension uniformity
  • Bobbin will sew to the very end without tension variation
  • High yield fiber - more stitches per bobbin.
  • Lower cost per yard based on usable yards per bobbin
  • Colors available - our bobbin colors are a perfect match to our Premo-Soft top thread colors
Some metal bobbin cases contain a backlash spring in the bottom of the case. This backlash spring must be removed.




Plastic-Sided Pre-wound Bobbins


 

Description: A clear plastic-sided pre-wound bobbin.

Fiber Type: Cotton - Egyptian Long-Staple Mercerized
Fiber Size: Tex 12
         

Features & Benefits:
  • Washable and colorfast
  • Available in popular colors so you can spend time quilting rather than winding bobbins
  • Uniform tension control for better stitch formation
  • Offers significantly more stitches than machine wound bobbins
  • Works great with thread sensors
  • Ideal for the productivity minded sewer


 

Description: A clear plastic-sided pre-wound bobbin.

Fiber Type: Polyester
Fiber Size: Tex 12


Features & Benefits:
  • Offers more stitches (yards per bobbin) than competitive or machine wound bobbins
  • Works great with machine thread sensors
  • Ideal for home embroidery, general sewing and productivity minded quilters
  • Wound using a high tenacity, high yield, continuous filament polyester thread
  • Available in Class L and Class 15/A
  • Available in 12 colors



Wind Your Own Bobbins


 

Description: A high yield thread for those who prefer to wind their own bobbins

Fiber Type: Polyester
Fiber Size: Tex 12

Features & Benefits:
  • A great bobbin thread for embroidery, quilting and general sewing
  • The same high quality thread used to make our Magna-Glide and Clear-Glide pre-wound bobbins
  • Smooth, uniform thread surface provides optimum tension control
  • Fiber - high yardage, continuous filament polyester
  • Also makes a great top thread for quilters



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