Another great episode! It was quite a journey for me, as a French person 😂 At first "wow I'm so glad I have my DMC towers in my shop with so many colours" before some "americans pay HOW MUCH for thread???" and finally the whole "broder" thread (special ?) I especially want to test out! Over here it's DMC kingdom with sometimes those big bags of non-descriptive thread. I'll keep a look out though!
Not me, stitching a dark blue butterfly while hearing you say: all the blues bleed out... I have a theory considering the Anchor/DMC split in regions. In the Eastern countries, there often are local brands that are much more affordable. I have seen Indian, Russian and Finnish thread brands that are way more affordable and seem to be of great quality, too. I think it is because embroidery is still practiced more often in some countries because their tradition is still there, thus the traditional brands survived globalization. This might make it harder for western companies to sell the more expensive threads so that DMC just didn't bother and Anchor thought it was an opportunity. Or maybe Anchor spread there first and the market is not profitable enough for 2 major brands so DMC just said screw it, we will expand to the west. It is fun to theorize about stuff like that :D
Loved this conversation about threads! FYI- JP Coats(Scotland/England) merged with MEZ(Germany) to make ANCHOR! vs DMC(France) and you missed the other biggie! Cosmo(Japan) :)
Another great episode! It was quite a journey for me, as a French person 😂
At first "wow I'm so glad I have my DMC towers in my shop with so many colours" before some "americans pay HOW MUCH for thread???" and finally the whole "broder" thread (special ?) I especially want to test out!
Over here it's DMC kingdom with sometimes those big bags of non-descriptive thread. I'll keep a look out though!
I loved listening to this while stetching out a few embroidery design ideas.
Yay! So glad to hear it!
Not me, stitching a dark blue butterfly while hearing you say: all the blues bleed out... I have a theory considering the Anchor/DMC split in regions. In the Eastern countries, there often are local brands that are much more affordable. I have seen Indian, Russian and Finnish thread brands that are way more affordable and seem to be of great quality, too. I think it is because embroidery is still practiced more often in some countries because their tradition is still there, thus the traditional brands survived globalization. This might make it harder for western companies to sell the more expensive threads so that DMC just didn't bother and Anchor thought it was an opportunity. Or maybe Anchor spread there first and the market is not profitable enough for 2 major brands so DMC just said screw it, we will expand to the west. It is fun to theorize about stuff like that :D
Loved this conversation about threads! FYI- JP Coats(Scotland/England) merged with MEZ(Germany) to make ANCHOR! vs DMC(France) and you missed the other biggie! Cosmo(Japan) :)
Good to know!