The Indian brands that make good quality cotton yarns
Many Indian manufacturers make varieties of cotton yarns. This article is about cotton yarns and specially those company brands that manufacture yarns which are suitable for crochet, knitting and some selective types of hand embroidery. Majority types of hand embroidery use embroidery floss, what we Indians mostly call embroidery threads. Some types of embroidery use the same kind of yarn as used in crochet and hand knitting and that is what this list is about. If you are searching for other types of cotton yarns or threads with any other types of uses, do drop a comment below on this page and we will write a list of whatever you require.
In this particular article, you will find a list of cotton yarns only, information about embroidery threads or embroidery floss is in another article.
There are many Indian manufacturers who make cotton yarns, below you will see a selective list of yarn manufacturers from India. This list is of those Yarn companies that make good quality yarn, given in alphabetical order :
Anchor
A very old and trusted name in handicrafts, Anchor makes color fast threads and yarns. Read more about the types of yarns that are suitable for crochet, knitting and other handicrafts mentioned above.
Ayush
This is a 3 ply or Tkt 16, mercerised cotton manufactured by Ayush. It comes in 50 gms ball. The company claims that colors are fast and do not bleed or fade (which means the projects made with them will retain the original shades for a long time). It has chainlet structure similar to Anchor. This one is suitable for beginners who are just learning and also comes at a lower price than Anchor, while it is greatly similar to Anchor.
Ganga
Ganga is another company that also makes good variety of cotton yarns which are suitable for handicrafts.
Vardhmān Yarns
Vardhmān company makes lots of types of yarns and you may read more about the types of yarns from Vardhman that are suitable for handicrafts and our website page also has links to buy these yarns from us.