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2. Sewing needle - Wikipedia

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   A sewing needle. 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 needles were made of bone or wood; modern needles are manufactured from high carbon steel wire and are nickel- or 18K gold-plated for corrosion resistance.

3. Stitching awl - Wikipedia

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   Sewing awls are used to make lock stitches. The needle, with the thread in the eye is pushed through the material. The thread is then pulled through the eye to extend it. As the needle is pushed through the material, the extra thread from the first stitch is then threaded through the loops of successive stitches creating a lock stitch.

4. Needle threader - Wikipedia

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   Needle threader and usage with a needle. Typical needle threader. A needle threader is a device for helping to put thread through the eye of a needle.Many kinds exist, though a common type combines a short length of fine wire bent into a diamond shape, with one corner held by a piece of tinplate or plastic.

5. Hook-and-eye closure - Wikipedia

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   Hooks and eyes were made by hand from wire, until the town of Redditch, England, already famous for sewing needle manufacture, was the first to machine-manufacture them. In 1643 a woman in the American colony of Maryland is recorded as having paid £10 worth of tobacco for hooks and eyes.

6. Sewing machine needle - Wikipedia

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   The majority of sewing machine needles are made of various grades of hardened steel coated with either nickel or chromium, though certain specialty needles are coated with titanium nitride on top of chromium. Titanium nitride is a reflective golden-colored ceramic material which reduces abrasion allowing the needle to stay sharper longer and ...

7. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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   taper (needle body is round and tapers smoothly to a point) cutting (needle body is triangular and has a sharpened cutting edge on the inside curve) reverse cutting (cutting edge on the outside) trocar point or tapercut (needle body is round and tapered, but ends in a small triangular cutting point) blunt points for sewing friable tissues