Sewing Threads

Sewing Threads are my favorite.

One product, where you buy yarn in kgs and sell thread in metres. What could be more profitable then this.

Sewing Threads are simple to manufacture , but marketing of sewing thread is not the same as other textile products. It is largely a game of colors and logistics.

Now that the Garment Industry is well organized, the marketing of sewing thread has become relatively easier and profitable business.

The most common counts are 20s, and 40s in different plies and then color it and shape it and dump it to the customer.

However, the sewing thread industry should be prepared that sewing machines will soon be compatible to run larger cones and there would be no need to make the small y cones and other fancy cones. Many a garment makers have already started using 5 inches and 6 inches cones in South America and it would not take long before the trend catches elsewhere.

Also as most cone winders have now measured length delivery so it makes it all the more easier to service the garment makers. Time is coming, when garment makers will not follow the ticket system and shall order directly to the spinner or dyer for the shade and calculate the exact length required to make the garment and order exact number of cones.

As for lubrication, sewing thread has been fooling itself that Silicon Lubricants are the Ideal lubricants . Silicon is a heat dissipate sink , but does not have any antistatic properties or strong lubricating properties. I have changed many a sewing thread makers to use a better and cheaper alternative.

Lastly, sooner or later, the Industry will realize that a simple bonding agent is much easier alternative to join garments, then stitching all the way. Kodak did not see this obvious fact with its photo films and went extinct. The Industry should ensure the " Kodak " should not happen to it.

Filament Sewing Thread making is quite a bit of technology beyond simple twisting. Not many , including large Multinationals have this technology. Silicon Lubricants for filament yarns have zero results.

Most important, the sewing thread industry needs to be Carbon Compliant, as it is the biggest polluter . Read my blog : Plastic Dyetubes or Weapons of Mass Destruction. The pollution further extends to discharge of effluent, inefficient use of water etc etc.