Madeira to Candle Thread color converter

Yes, that is exactly what it is for. Purchased embroidery designs almost always list their colors in one of the big commercial brands, and those numbers are not printed on a Candle Thread spool. Type the Madeira number from the design's thread list and the chart gives you the Candle number to pull, using Candle Thread's own published equivalents.

That is Candle Thread's own rating of their own thread, and it is worth reading it that way rather than as an independent measurement. They built this chart to say which of their colors stands in for which Madeira Polyneon color, and they marked all 413 of them their top grade. That is a strong claim from the people who dye the thread, and it is still a claim. For a background fill, take the chart's answer and stitch. For a logo color or anything a customer will hold up against a brand guide, run a test stitch and look at it in daylight.

From Candle Thread's own master shade card, which lists a published color value for every number they sell. So the dot beside each Candle number is the maker's own value rather than something matched by eye. Two things to keep in mind anyway: a screen is backlit and a spool is not, and dye lots move a little between runs. The dots are for recognizing a color, not for approving one.

Because the two makers publish their color values separately, and putting them side by side on one row would suggest a precision neither chart claims. Amann publishes Polyneon values of their own, and Madeira's printed color card is the real reference for a Madeira number. This page shows Candle Thread's colors because Candle Thread supplied them.

The chart covers 413 Polyneon numbers, which is most of the range in ordinary use but not all of it. If yours is missing, Candle Thread have not published an equivalent for it, and this page will not invent one. Two things that work: ask Candle Thread directly, since they answer and they keep extending these charts, or match against their physical color card, which is the honest way to close a gap a chart does not cover.

No. This one is polyester to polyester, which is the comparison that makes sense for Polyneon. Their viscose line has its own shade card and its own numbers, and a rayon thread behaves differently on the machine and in the wash than a polyester one. Do not read a polyester pairing across to a rayon spool with the same number.