Class 23: Yarns and threads

Class heading

• Yarns and threads for textile use

What class 23 covers

Class 23 includes mainly natural or synthetic yarns and threads for textile use.

This class includes in particular:

• fibreglass, elastic, rubber and plastic threads for textile use
• threads for embroidery, darning and sewing, including those of metal
• spun silk, spun cotton, spun wool

This class does not include in particular:

• threads, other than for textile use, that are classified according to the material of which they are made, for example, threads for binding of metal (Class 6) and not of metal (Class 22), elastic threads, threads of rubber or plastic (Class 17), fibreglass threads (Class 21)
• certain threads for specific uses, for example, identification threads for electric wires (Class 9), surgical thread (Class 10), threads of precious metal being jewellery (Class 14)

Class heading and explanatory note adapted from WIPO’s Nice Classification explanatory notes (NCL 13-2026), © WIPO, CC BY. Changes: shortened layout; references to other classes turned into links. CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · WIPO terms of use (opens in a new tab)

Turkish list (Tebliğ 2026/2) for class 23

Unofficial English translation. Filings in Türkiye use the official Turkish text of TÜRKPATENT Communiqué 2026/2.

• Yarns and threads for textile use; sewing, embroidery and knitting yarns and threads, elastic yarns and threads
  Show official Turkish text

  Tekstil amaçlı büküm iplikleri; dikiş, nakış ve örgü iplikleri, tireler, esnek iplikler.

Example terms in class 23

A selection of 100 terms from the 220 USPTO ID Manual terms in this class.

• Alpaca wool yarn
• Angora yarn
• Baby alpaca wool yarn
• Camel hair yarn
• Carded yarns made of wool
• Cashmere yarns
• Chenille yarn
• Coir thread and yarn
• Cotton base mixed thread and yarn
• Cotton thread
• Cotton thread for darning
• Cotton yarn for textile
• Covered rubber yarn for textile
• Darning thread and yarn
• Degreased waste threads and yarns
• Doupioni silk thread and yarn
• Douppioni silk thread
• Douppioni silk yarn
• Elastic thread and yarn for textile
• Elastic yarns for textile
• Embroidery thread and yarn
• Fiberglass thread and yarn for textile
• Fiberglass yarn for textile
• Fibreglass thread for textile
• Flax thread
• Flax yarn
• Glass fiber thread and yarn
• Glass yarns for textile
• Hair yarn
• Hand knitting yarns
• Hand spun silk thread and yarn
• Hand-dyed yarn
• Heat-stable threads
• Heat-stable yarns
• Hemp base mixed thread and yarn
• Hemp threads and yarns
• Jute thread
• Jute yarn
• Knitting yarn
• Knitting yarns of wool
• Linen yarn
• Metal fibre thread for textile
• Mixed spun thread
• Mixed spun yarn
• Paper yarn for textile
• Plastic thread for textile
• Ramie thread
• Ramie yarn
• Rayon thread
• Rayon yarn
• Regenerated fiber yarn for textile
• Regenerated fibre yarn for textile
• Rubber thread for textile
• Rubber-coated threads for textile
• Sail thread
• Sail yarn
• Semi-synthetic fiber thread and yarn
• Sewing thread
• Sewing thread for textile
• Shoemaker's thread
• Shoemaker's yarn
• Silk threads and yarns
• Silk yarn for textile
• Spun cotton
• Spun silk thread
• Spun silk yarn
• Spun thread and yarn
• Spun yarn
• Synthetic fiber thread and yarn
• Synthetic fibre thread
• Synthetic fibre yarn
• Synthetic thread and yarn
• Textile yarns
• Thread for textile
• Threads and yarns for textile
• Threads for embroidery
• Threads made of spun cotton
• Threads of spun cotton
• Twisted cotton thread
• Twisted cotton yarn
• Twisted hemp yarn
• Twisted mixed thread and yarn
• Twisted silk thread
• Twisted silk yarn
• Twisted threads and yarns
• Twisted wool thread and yarn
• Twisted yarn
• Waste cotton thread
• Waste cotton yarn
• Waxed thread and yarn
• Wild silk thread
• Wild silk yarn
• Wool for hand-knitting
• Wool yarn
• Woolen thread and yarn
• Worsted thread
• Worsted yarn
• Yarn and thread for textile purposes
• Yarn for textile
• Yarn of plastic materials for textile

Example terms: Source: USPTO ID Manual (public domain), retrieved 18 October 2026.

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