NEEDLES I offer a range of Needles for different embroidery techniques. SHORT BEADING NEEDLES BY JOHN JAMES The short beading needles come in size 12 (smallest) or 10 and come in a packet of four. They have a long eye for easier threading, the needle is 1 1/4 inch (3 cm) long. Sharp Point (4 Needles in Packet): The short beading needle with the sharp point is excellent for goldwork embroidery when stitching down No. 7 Purl chips and smaller, for fine bead work on closely woven fabrics and long and short stitch using YLI silk thread. The long beading needle is for beading projects. Ball Point (4 Needles in Packet): The short beading needle with the Tapestry (ball) point is excellent for fine bead work on counted fabrics and for working counted embroidery stitches on a fabric with a high thread count i.e. 40 + threads to the inch, using a fine embroidery thread such as YLI silk thread. Packet of Short Beading Needles: $2.50 Canadian Dollars Quantity: Select Type Size 12 Sharp Point: 4 Needles Size 12 Ball Point: 4 Needles Size 10 Sharp Point: 6 Needles Size 10 Ball Point: 6 Needles View Cart Packet of 25 Short Beading Needles: $5.25 Canadian Dollars Quantity: Select Type Size 12 Sharp Point Size 12 Ball Point Size 10 Sharp Point Size 10 Ball Point View Cart Packet of 25 Long Beading Needles Size 12 with Sharp Point: $5.25 Canadian Dollars Quantity: View Cart CHENILLE NEEDLES BY JOHN JAMES Chenille Needle have a large eye and a sharp point. The needles range from size 18 which has the largest eye and shaft to size 24 with the smallest eye and shaft. Packet of 6 needles. Chenille needles are used for ribbon embroidery and for goldwork embroidery. In ribbon embroidery the size of the needle used depends on the width of the ribbon. Purchasing an assorted packet gives you all sizes possible. Packet of 6 Chenille Needle Size 18/24: $2.50 Canadian Dollars Quantity: View Cart In Goldwork embroidery the No. 18 Chenille needle is used in goldwork embroidery to take the ends of gold threads such as passing, rococco, twists and Japan thread to the back of the work (plunging or sinking). The ends of these threads can be threaded into the eye of the needle. No. 18 Chenille Needle: $0.25 Canadian Dollars Each Quantity: View Cart CREWEL EMBROIDERY NEEDLES BY RICHARD HEMMING & SON Crewel embroidery needles have a long eye for easier threading a sharp point to the needle so that the stitches can be worked close together and there is more control for placing the stitches. This needle is not suitable for counted thread work as the point of the needle would easily catch the threads of the fabric, distorting the counted work. Size 10 (15 Needles in a Packet): Used for Needle Painting, Goldwork, Modern Jacobean, Fine White Work, Shadow work and other fine embroidery techniques that are worked on a tightly woven fabric and is a very fine needle. Suitable for one strand of floss or silk thread and sewing cotton. Size 9 and 8 (15 Needles in a Packet): Used for Fine Embroidery and sewing, two strands of floss and for No. 12 Perle Cotton Thread. Size 7 and Size 6 (15 Needles in a Packet): Used for Fine Embroidery and sewing, two - three strands of floss and No. 8 Perle Cotton Thread. Size 5 (15 Needles in a Packet) and 4 (12 Needles in a Packet): Used for Traditional Jacobean and other coarse embroidery techniques that are worked on a tightly woven fabric. Suitable for one or two strands of crewel wool and metallic threads. Size 4 (12 Needles in a Packet): Used for the #2 Mountmellick embroidery thread and other coarse embroidery techniques that are worked on a tightly woven fabric. Suitable for Mountmellick thread, three strands of crewel wool and perle cotton. Size 3, 2 and 1 (12 Needles in a Packet): Used for the #3 and #4 Mountmellick embroidery thread and coarse embroidery techniques that are worked on a tightly woven fabric. Packet of Crewel Embroidery Needles: $2.50 Canadian Dollars Quantity: Select Size: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 View Cart Curved Beading Needles Curved Quilting Needles CURVED NEEDLES BY JOHN JAMES Curved needles are great for awkward stitch angles, where a straight needles just won't do. Curved Beading Needles (2 Needles in a Packet): These are fine curved needles approximately 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long, good for beading or for stitching on silk fabric or single layer cotton fabrics. Curved Quilting Needles (4 Needles in a Packet): Four in a packet. The smallest needle is 2 inches (5 cm) long and the largest is 3 inches (7 1/2 cm) long. Used for sewing together fabrics and for sewing down ends of embroidery threads at the back of the work such as on goldwork and stumpwork embroidery. Packet of Curved Beading Needles (2 pkg): $2.50 Canadian Dollars Quantity: View Cart Packet of Curved Quilting Needles (4 pkg): $2.95 Canadian Dollars Quantity: View Cart TAPESTRY NEEDLES BY JOHN JAMES Tapestry needles have a blunt end to the point of the needle so that the needle does not catch or pierce the threads of the counted fabric when working from one hole to the next. The tapestry needle has a long eye for easier threading and the needles range in size from small size 28 to large size 20. Tapestry Needle Size 28 by John James (5 Needles in a Packet): Used for Blackwork, Cross-stitch, Pulled work and other counted techniques on 32 count fabric to 50 count fabrics. Tapestry Needle Size 26 by John James (6 Needles in a Packet): Used for Blackwork, Cross-stitch, Pulled work and other counted techniques on 18 count fabric to 32 count fabrics. Tapestry Needle Size 24 by John James (6 Needles in a Packet): Used for Blackwork, Canvas work, Cross-stitch, Pulled work and other counted techniques on 14 count canvas's and fabric to 18 count canvas's and fabrics. Tapestry Needle Size 22 by John James (6 Needles in a Packet): Used for Canvas work and other counted techniques on 8 count canvas's and fabric, to 14 count canvas's and fabrics. Tapestry Needle Size 20 by John James (6 Needles in a Packet): Used for Canvas work and other counted techniques on 8 count canvas's and fabric, to 14 count canvas's and fabrics. Packet of Tapestry Needles: $2.50 Canadian Dollars Quantity: Select Size: 28 26 24 22 20 View Cart Metal Top Wire Needle Threaders Plastic Top Wire Needle threads NEEDLE THREADERS Wire needle threaders for all sizes of needles. Enables you to thread the really small eyed needles. The metal wire loop of the needle threader is threaded into the eye of the needle (much easier than threading in a strand of thread), the thread is then threaded into the wire loop of the threader and then the wire loop and embroidery thread are pulled back through the eye of the needle, the thread is now threaded into the needle. The needle threaders are particularly useful for the No. 10 crewel embroidery needles used for Needle Painting, White Work, Shadow Work and Goldwork, the No. 28 tapestry needles used for blackwork and the No. 7 crewel embroidery needle for Jacobean and the No. 12 quilting needle. Packet of 3 Metal Top Wire Needle Threaders: $1.39 Canadian Dollars Quantity: View Cart Packet of 3 Plastic Top Wire Needle Threaders: $1.69 Canadian Dollars Quantity: View Cart View the   Shopping Cart for mailing costs.

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