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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. Sewing machine needle - Wikipedia

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   Embroidery: These needles come with an extra large eye and a specially shaped scarf to prevent embroidery thread from shredding. Ballpoint: Similar to a universal needle but has rounded edges and is not tapered the same way. Intended for closely knit fabrics where the rounded tip will push the weave out of the way rather than cut through it ...

4. Hand embroidery machine - Wikipedia

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   The hand embroidery machine consists of a large frame, suspended vertically, on which the fabric is stretched. Two sets of clamps, one on either side of the fabric, alternately pass the needles from the front side to the back side. Fig. 3. Hand embroidery machine, side view. See text for description

5. Punch needle - Wikipedia

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   A punch needle stitch is made by forcing the needle through the weave of the fabric, creating a loop that is kept in place by friction. [1] [5] [7] The tool is held so that the eye of the needle stays on the opposite side of the direction of the stitch. [1] [4] [8] Punch needle embroidery is typically worked from the front of the fabric. On the ...

6. Schiffli embroidery machine - Wikipedia

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   However, since preparing a punched tape was relatively expensive, hand machine embroidery continued to fill a niche - especially for small batch embroidery. Even before 1900, Saurer was able to build and sell very large numbers of schiffli machines. In 1910, there were 4,862 schiffli embroidery machines in operation in Switzerland.

7. Embroidery stitch - Wikipedia

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   Bangladesh's Nakshi Kantha embroidery. An illustration of the buttonhole stitch. In everyday language, a stitch in the context of embroidery or hand-sewing is defined as the movement of the embroidery needle from the back of the fibre to the front side and back to the back side. [1] The thread stroke on the front side produced by this is also ...