A sewing needle, used for hand-sewing, is a long slender tool with a pointed tip at one end and a hole (or eye) to hold the sewing thread. The earliest...
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for a mechanical device to aid the art of sewing, in 1755. His invention consisted of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end. In 1790, the English...
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A sewing machine needle is a specialized needle for use in a sewing machine. A sewing machine needle consists of: shank - clamped by the sewing machine's...
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Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewing needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile...
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mechanically operated. These may be part of a sewing or embroidery machine, or standalone tools. The first known use of needle threaders in Europe was in the eighteenth...
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and collar stays. Notions also include the small tools used in sewing, such as needles, thread, pins, marking pens, elastic, and seam rippers. The noun...
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for knitting, not as sharp as a sewing needle Sewing needle, a long slender tool with a pointed tip Trussing needle, a long slender tool, sometimes with...
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Glossary of dyeing terms. Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of...
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eye of a needle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eye of the needle or eye of a needle is the tunnel-like space near one end of a sewing needle. Eye of...
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long shaft and taper at their end, but they are not nearly as sharp as sewing needles. Their purpose is two-fold. The long shaft holds the active (unsecured)...
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Overlock (redirect from Overlock Sewing Machine)
pass from the needle thread to the edges of the fabric so that the edges of the fabric are contained within the seam. Overlock sewing machines usually...
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Singer Corporation (redirect from Singer Sewing Machine Company)
design was the first practical sewing machine for general domestic use. It incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by Elias...
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Lockstitch (redirect from Single needle stitching)
lockstitch is the most common mechanical stitch made by a sewing machine. The term "single needle stitching", often found on dress shirt labels, refers to...
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Needlework (redirect from Needle Work)
Needlework is decorative sewing and textile arts handicrafts. Anything that uses a needle for construction can be called needlework. Needlework may include...
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combination sewing-embroidery machines have a hooping or framing system that holds the framed area of fabric taut under the sewing needle and moves it...
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The Golden Needle Sewing School was an underground school for women in Herat, Afghanistan, during the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Because women...
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of the square while the sewing needle is on the footpath in front of the train station. According to the artists the needle pulling thread through fabric...
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character A dagger Bodkin point, a type of arrowhead Bodkin needle, a variety of sewing needle Lawyers bodkin, a type of hole puncher Bodkin, U.S. Virgin...
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Torrington Company (redirect from Excelsior Needle Company)
Excelsior Needle Company. It was formed in 1866 around the new idea of using a "cold swaging" technique to create better sewing machine needles, but also...
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The Great British Sewing Bee is a BBC reality show that began airing on BBC Two on 2 April 2013. In the show, talented amateur sewers compete to be named...
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Zigzag stitch (category Sewing machines)
side motion of the sewing machine's needle is controlled by a cam. As the cam rotates, a fingerlike follower, connected to the needle bar, rides along the...
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Decorative box (redirect from Sewing box)
2013-06-07. "Etui". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2012-05-25. "Antique Sewing Needle Cases". Collectors Weekly. Retrieved 2012-05-25. "Mother-of-Pearl Etui...
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Thread (yarn) (redirect from High-temperature sewing threads)
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eisengarn ('iron yarn') Hank (textile) Sewing needle Staple (textiles) Stitch (textile arts) "Thread | Encyclopedia.com"...
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Thimble (redirect from Sewing ring)
on the finger that protects it from being pricked or poked by a needle while sewing. The Old English word þȳmel, the ancestor of thimble, is derived...
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Saddle stitch (category Sewing stitches)
stitches through a single line of holes. The holes may be created by the sewing needles themselves in lighter materials, or by an awl, pricking iron, or stitching...
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Elias Howe (redirect from Howe sewing machine)
750) for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design. His machine contained the three essential features common to most modern machines: a needle with the...
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doubtless this which led Franklin in 1751 to attempt to magnetize a sewing-needle by means of the discharge of Leyden jars." The electromagnetic force...
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remedy for pains attributed to elf-arrows. When dealing with cattle, a sewing-needle folded into a page torn from a psalm-book, and placed into the beast's...
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Lip sewing or mouth sewing, the operation of stitching together human lips, is a form of body modification. It may be carried out for aesthetic or religious...
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either inserting a welt or by sewing a strip over the seam. 1882- Hollow Sewing Needle This invention is a hollow sewing needle designed to hold a significant...
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