Assorted Button Thread - Toronto or Canada Online?

Question

Just need a selection of strong synthetic button threads (and needles) in basic colors - black, beige, navy, white - for large buttons on actively used apparel and furniture slips. Would shop a store in Toronto or purchase online in Canada. Googling turns up commercial thread companies that supply large orders - this would only be one spool of each color.

Thanks for recommending a good quality retail consumer sewing supply store in Toronto or Canadian online that will handle a small order.

Answer 1

If you live in Toronto then the Queen West area has the best assortment of sewing and fabric stores, but you do need to shop in person. Designer Fabrics (orange bag store -as it's called many torontonians) has everything you need including sturdy buttonhole and upholstery threads. King textiles has more evening and fancy fabrics, I go there with custom evening wear customers -but they do have sturdy buttonhole thread last time I was there. Queen West should be your first stop before you try anywhere else. If you are in the 'burbs then any Fabricland will have what you want and there are several Fabricland's throughout the GTA and The Golden Horseshoe

Answer 2

Try any fabric store, and ask for a polyester buttonhole twist if you want heavy thread; personally, I use standard sewing thread even on outdoor gear. I'd sooner have a button pop off with thread breakage than have to repair torn fabric. v69 is about the heaviest (upholstery) thread that a home sewing machine can handle. See also: http://www.beaconfabric.com/vindex.html (then thread and then "outdoor thread".



I believe Queen St is the heart of the Toronto fabric district, but that's only hearsay as I've never been to Toronto. There are some older sewing store reviews at http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/allstorereviews.pl -- search for Toronto by location. I've bought from Wool House at US sewing shows... the people they send seem to be quite knowledgeable.



If you want to mail order, I have done business with MacPhee Workshops, and had satisfactory transactions each time: http://www.macpheeworkshop.com/ -- just drop them a note.

Answer 3

Fabricland sells buttonhole twist for sewing on buttons. They are all over Toronto.



http://www.fabricland.ca