Suture with a plurality of color marks

A suture having an outer sheath comprising a plurality of color marks and a background visually distinguishable from the color marks,

• wherein said plurality of color marks are arranged in at least one row along a longitudinal direction of the suture, each color mark being longitudinally shifted with respect to a subsequent color mark in a same row by a first shift,
• wherein each color mark comprises more than two exposed portions of colored yarns in the same row along the longitudinal direction of the suture,
• wherein each color mark does not comprise exposed portions of said background in the same row along the longitudinal direction of the suture,
• wherein at least two colored yarns respectively have a first color and a second color,
• wherein at least a further colored yarn has a respective color selected from:
• said first color, said second color and at least one other color different from said first color and said second color,
• wherein each color mark comprises at least exposed portions of said first color and of said second color,
• wherein, in each color mark, exposed portions of colored yarns of a same color are adjacent to one another along the longitudinal direction of the suture,
• wherein said background comprises exposed portions of background yarns of a background color, said background yarns and said colored yarns being braided to each other, said first color and said second color being different from said background color and said first color being different from said second color,
• wherein the exposed portions of the colored yarns of each color mark are substantially parallel to each other and arranged in a sequence along the longitudinal direction of the suture, and
• wherein the sequence of more than two exposed portions of colored yarns is repeated in the same row along the longitudinal direction of the suture.