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Silk filament in colourways you will not find on a general shelf, plus the parts that fail first and the tools that make a print look finished. If you are mid-build and something has broken, this is the shelf that gets you going again today.

On the rainbow spools. There are two different products and they behave differently. Gradient changes colour along the length, eight to ten metres a colour, so a tall print walks up through the spectrum and a small one comes out a single colour. Tri and quad colour run side by side down the whole strand, so any print shows all of them from different angles whatever its size. Buy gradient for vases and lamps, co-extruded for fidgets and small work. Either way it prints on one nozzle with no purge waste.