Welcome to Penguin Threads

Penguin Threads was established in 1965 as an industrial sewing and embroidery thread wholesaling company supplying the many clothing and textile manufacturers Australia wide.

Penguin Threads saw the need for these same threads to be available to the home sewer and embroiderer who also have the need and appreciation of top quality threads.

Penguin therefore, diversified into the domestic sewing and embroidery thread market in 1985 with the introduction of many wonderful and exciting embroidery threads never seen before.

Penguin Threads proudly are the exclusive importers the most reputable and highest quality thread manufacturer in the world – Madeira Threads.

Madeira Threads are the producers of the most innovative and exciting industrial machine embroidery threads.

Madeira Threads are renown for their superior quality threads and the selection they are able to manufacture to provide both the home sewer and the industrial embroiderer with the highest quality threads possible.

We at Penguin are proud to represent such world-class companies.

We are proud to be able to supply the Australian manufacturing industry and the home sewer with such exciting and gorgeous threads, which bring textiles alive.

Once upon a time – when you thought of thread you thought of cotton.

Not anymore.

Threads now conjure up all sorts of varieties from sparkling metallics, lustrous rayons, flouro polyesters to a variety of sewing threads in all counts and colours.

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