Anand, you guys in Australia can get the best Rayon in the world from Japan and Southeast Asia, we in the US cannot. They cannot be imported in. I had a distributor here in Los Angeles that was bringing thread in from Japan and from Malaysia and they got slammed by Customs, I used their thread exclusively for many years. This is the rule of thumb for thread use Rayon vs. Polyester Rayon is used for fine embroidery and for more shine on regular garments. Poly is used for mostly items that will be commercially laundered. Poly is very hard on machines, it will cut up most thread guides 10 times faster than cotton and probably 50 times faster than rayon. But it is more forgiving to badly timed machines and bad designs that tend to make the machine break thread a lot. It also requires heavier tensions that will pucker the embroidery after a while. Rayon is very delicate specially black and white, machine must be in top condition and design must be well digitized. It's not very forgiving to outdoor use, to heavy laundering. But will look best specially on fills. This is from my own personally experience. I've heard other reason pro and con for both threads, but we've been doing automated machine embroidery for 24 years, and for 30 years before that with manual Zig Zag embroidery machines. And we repair our won machines except for the new Amaya XT's that we just got. Ernest Aguilar CEO Lancaster Uniform Cap Co., Inc. lovecars.com Embroidery NOTE NEW ADDRESS 5522 Olive St. Montclair, CA 91763 909-949-7070 909-949-4270 FAX -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kesavan Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 4:30 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: R&A thread Thanks every one. Unfortunately the Australian distributor stocks only rayon. Anand =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list =========================================================== =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================