it is a Coats and Clark cotton covered polyester thread. The color number looks like 280. So hard to read. This is an older thread.....not sure what I last sewed with it! There is also another number under the upc code lines.... 81587. Not sure which is the color number. It has a T2 in a circle....not a color number, but not sure what that means. I have looked online here and found a couple of colors that are close.....but will be 100% cotton. Not sure if the sheen would be less and thus show the difference. Still in a quandary, but thanks for the offer.