• Coats Mercer Crochet Cotton No. 3
• Coats Mercer Crochet No. 5
• Coats Anchor Perl Cotton No. 5
• Twilley's Goldfingering - this is a heavy metallic thread which comes in a range of colours including gold and silver, and which works well for both rings adn chains. You should be able to get it in 25 gramme balls.
• Anchor Lame - this is an embroidery thread, you should use it as it comes straight from the skein. It needs to be handled with a little care as it kinks readily so you will have to tat a little more slowly than usual. It works very well for tatting and will even pull through with magic threads.
• Stranded embroidery cotton - again you can use stranded embroidery cotton as it comes straight from the skein, or if you wish you can separate out the strands from the skein then recombine them as you require to create different thicknesses of thread.

Use seed beads size 5 or 6 with these threads.