okay joann's did NOT have red tapestry wool. they had salmon. they had other colors. they had orange. they did not have anything APPROACHING real red.
so we tried michael's, which did (i had no idea) have embroidery floss, BUT only had tapestry wool in $19+ sets, only ONE of which had red. NOT the basic rainbow set, which i would have bought with only slight second guessing.
i ended up buying a $9 skein of red wool yarn that isn't too chunky for me to pull apart the plys and use for darning. more than i wanted to spend or would have spent on tapestry wool, but a lot faster than having to go to another store or spend a silly amount of money on shipping a $2 item.