About Red Heart

Red Heart is proud to be America’s Favorite Yarn and one of the most trusted brands for knitters and crocheters. For 80 years, Red Heart has been at the center of joy-filled memories for the giver and the receiver of hand-made, one-of-a-kind creations given from the heart. Our wide selection of yarns are regularly used by knitters or crocheters in the USA, and are the winner of the Women’s Choice Award for America’s most recommended yarn brand. With a suite of quality, trusted yarns and knitting and crochet supplies, along with over 3,000 free patterns to spark imagination, Red Heart’s mission is to inspire joy in each person it touches. The joy of making, the joy of giving, and the joy of receiving – Red Heart is at the center–giving you the supplies to create something special, handmade and long-lasting. www.redheart.com

About Coats

Coats is the world’s leading industrial thread manufacturer and a major player in the Americas textile crafts market. At home in some 60 countries, Coats employs 19,000 people across six continents. Revenues in 2016 were US$1.5bn.

Coats’ pioneering history and innovative culture ensure the company leads the way around the world: providing complementary and value added products and services to the apparel and footwear industries; applying innovative techniques to develop high technology Performance Materials threads and yarns in areas such as automotive, composites and fibre optics; and extending the crafts offer into new markets and online.

Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a FTSE 250 listed company on the London Stock Exchange.

• Each year we make enough thread to go into 8 billion pairs of jeans – that’s one for every person on the planet
• Every month Coats produces enough thread to stretch all the way to the sun
• More than 450 million pairs of shoes are made every year using Coats’ thread
• More than 100 million car airbags are made using Coats’ Performance Materials thread every year
• In 1879 Thomas Edison used Coats’ thread in his experiments to invent the light bulb
• Our Red Heart knitting and crochet yarn brand has been named ‘America’s Most Recommended’ by the Women’s Choice Award for three years running
• Our flame retardant Performance Materials threads can withstand temperatures as high as 1,000 degrees Celsius
• Coats is the second largest supplier of zips to global brands