Pipers Silk (flat floss) order

I have never seen this maker's threads up close or in person before and after watching Helen M Stevens' embroidery tutorials on youtube, I decided I must have some!

They sell different types of both twisted and flat, but this order is of the flat, filament floss.

They arrived today.  The first three photos are taken out in the afternoon sunshine, just so you can see their marvellous brilliance.

They are still in their ziplock bag packaging, so you would think the plastic would make them shine more, but as you can see clearly in the third photo - the plastic probably takes away from it.

The photo below is taken inside with no particular light source.  Still in their bag, they are still stunning.

It is very fine thread, but being flat silk it should have better coverage than, say, cotton of a similar thickness.  This one (below) is called Saffron Gold.  It was in a little bag of its own - so is not in the images above.

You can see from the cm increments on the ruler that this thread is about half a mm wide.

Here it is out of its bag in early afternoon sun.