Commercial embroidery machines take it directly. Home machines usually can't — the cone is taller than a standard spool — so you'll want an inexpensive thread stand or cone adapter that feeds it from above. Plenty of our customers run it this way.

Identical: 100% trilobal filament polyester, 40 weight, 2 ply, same numbered colors. Only the cone size changes.

5,000 meters — 5,468 yards. That's five times a standard 1,000-meter cone, so you get far fewer color changes on a production run.

40 weight, 2 ply — the standard for machine embroidery. Digitized designs are built around this weight, so stitch densities come out as the designer intended.

It's trilobal filament polyester. The fiber has a three-sided cross-section that reflects light from multiple angles, which is what gives machine embroidery its sheen and depth.

Over 150 single colors on the extra-large cone, each numbered so you can reorder the exact shade. Buy the cones you need in one order so the dye lots match.