COATS & CLARK-Susan Bates Anchor Embroidery Floss. Spun from the worlds finest 100% Egyptian cotton. Anchor offers you the largest selection of colours and shades available in the market today. Anchor Stranded Cotton Thread is silky in appearance, it is available in 460 colour balanced and co ordinated Anchor shades, and is used extensively throughout the world. It can be used for freestyle and counted thread embroidery. This stranded cotton is particularly popular for cross stitch. Anchor stranded cotton is comprised of 6 easily separable strands of the finest quality long staple mercerised cotton. 8 metres per skein.