I believe that one reason aurifil sells so well is because popular authors like Edyta Sitar or Gudrun Erla reccommend it in their books. Because of lint and shredding, I stopped buying Connecting Threads brand and bought a lot of aurifil in neutral shades that was part of a close-out offer. That was the earlier Connecting Threads, more recently I have ordered thread from them and was happy with it. To me, Connecting Threads just gets better and better in their thread and fabric collections. I also stock up on Coats & Clark when on sale. When picking out and re-sewing what someone else has sewn, the brand of thread does not matter nearly as much as how careful the sewer is, or if the sewing machine has been fine tuned.

I like the Aurifil thread, and have never had a breakage using it.

I did notice that Connecting Threads is now labeled as "extra long staple cotton" -- it was long staple cotton probably even as recently as maybe a year ago. I plan to stick with Aurifil, but I definitely agree CT is making major strides in improving their brand of thread.

I love Aurifil for all the reasons stated. I haven't had a breaking problem and I use in it my Bernina and Featherweight.

I have many different brands of thread, but what makes me keep buying Aurifil is:

1. I don't have to refill my bobbin nearly as often.
2. It doesn't lint up in my machine as bad as any of the brands which means I don't have to clean it out of my machine as often which is a real pain for me since I have an extraordinarily finicky bobbin case.

testing because I can't seem to get to page 2 of this thread. Maybe I can this way.

Gale, pg 3 won't load for me... Very strange.

so TRUE. Thank you for clarifying. Sometimes "marketing" detours our conception...tho it is called Silk "finish".
Sandy

The heavier weight Aurifil can and is used in machine embroidery.
Sandy