We've been collecting balls of deadstock specialized darning thread for ages, and swear they made it better back when everyone used it. (Can you even get it at all now? If you can, certainly not easily.) These 75-yard balls of "plain finish" cotton thread are unused, or very slightly used, from venerable brands J&P Coats, Coats & Clarks, Lily and Gilt Edge, and they are wonderful to work: smooth, even, no catching, splitting and knotting. 4 ends of 2 ply means four strands, each strand consisting of two threads twisted together. Colors as listed. Price is per ball.
Now Is When We All Learn to Darn Our Socks Again - The New York Times
This dreamy embroidery thread is a silky ivory cotton made in France mid-last century (I think) by Dollfus-Mieg & Cie, that you know as DMC: it's
Vintage French Floche
What the heck is darning? – wrenbirdarts
Box of Vintage Italian Thread - visiblemending
How to mend your own clothes : Life Kit : NPR
Bought some colorful thread to reinforce elbows on a sweater and then remembered these socks had a hole, too. This is my first time using a darning egg and it made it
Grey Darning Wool, Mending Thread for Knitwear, Socks and Accessories, 15m Visible Mending Thread in a Range of Grays Wool/polyamide
We've been collecting balls of deadstock specialized darning thread for ages, and swear they made it better back when everyone used it. (Can you even
Classic Darning Cotton
Visible Mending with a Darning Loom
How to Mend Holes in Your Handknits - The Fibre Co.
Standard issue in every home till at least the 1950s, these sets of darning and mending cotton in standard shades are still good for any fine work
Darning and Mending Cottons