DMC thread (or "floss" as it's called in the needlework world) pretty much has a monopoly. Let's say you want jade green. Each one of their colors is attached to a number, so if you get a pattern somewhere it'll say, "Get DMC 505," and it'll be jade green. There's literally hundreds of these with the highest number being 3866. Recently I got a new pattern that with numbers higher than that, which confused the shit out of me. And it was worse when I went to all the thread stores knew of and they didn't have anything higher than 3866. It seems DMC released sixteen new colors recently, but because every single shop has a display that has the exact amount of thread, there's no room for the new ones. And because I haven't seen this new palette in real life, I can't match it to an existing thread that's close. Why the hell would they do this to us? Isn't hundreds of colors enough?