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2. 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 ...

3. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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   Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts , arising in the Paleolithic Era. Although usually associated with clothing and household linens , sewing is used in a variety of crafts and industries, including shoemaking , upholstery , sailmaking ...

4. 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.

5. Sewing machine - Wikipedia

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   Sewing machines reduced the time for making a dress shirt to an hour and 15 minutes; the time to make a dress to an hour; [31] and the time for a pair of summer pants to 38 minutes. [32] This reduced labor resulted in women having a diminished role in household management , and allowed more hours for their own leisure as well as the ability to ...

6. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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   Cotton or wool fabric, silk thread Kuba textiles: The Congo: Embroidery, appliqué, cut-pile embroidery Raffia cloth and thread Kutch embroidery: Kutch, Gujarat, India Cotton cloth, cotton or silk thread Lambada embroidery: Banjara people: Mountmellick work: Mountmellick, County Laois, Ireland Knotted stitches, padded stitches White cotton ...

7. Lockstitch - Wikipedia

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   To make one stitch, the machine lowers the threaded needle through the cloth into the bobbin area, where a rotating hook (or other hooking mechanism) catches the upper thread at the point just after it goes through the needle. The hook mechanism carries the upper thread entirely around the bobbin case so that it has made one wrap of the bobbin ...

8. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

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   A spool of thread may be described in terms of its "single's equivalent". This is the cotton count size of the thread divided by the number of plies which make it up. A spool of 30/3 thread has a single's equivalent of 10, because a single strand or ply of that thread has a cotton count size of 10.

9. Gauge (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   Changing needle size is the best way to control one's own gauge for a given pattern and yarn. Finally, the knitter's tension, or how tightly one knits, can affect the gauge significantly. The gauge can even vary within a single garment , typically with beginning knitters; as knitters become more familiar with a stitch pattern, they become more ...