Handy Hands Lizbeth Egyptian Cotton Crochet Thread, Tatting Thread, and Knitting Thread Lace Size 20 (25 Grams 210 Yards) - HH20694, Harvest Orange Med

one of my crochet students recently was asking me about thread crochet thread crochet is work just like regular crochet the same stitches often but it's worked with this fine cotton thread instead of with big bulky yarn if you've seen examples of thread crochet before it might have been in these really delicate tablecloths or fancy doilies so I wanted to explain a little bit about the thread that's used in thread crochet almost all the thread on the market is made from cotton and often it's a mercerized cotton and what that means when you mercerized cotton is it's been chemically treated in a process and that process makes it kind of shinier it makes it stronger and it makes it absorb die better which is part of why you can get thread for crocheting in all different gorgeous colors and they're even variegated Zout they're the sizing for thread is different than what we use for the sizin