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Small porcelain baskets with a pin cushion inside were highly popular, as were small cushions, such as wedding pillows or maternity pillows, embroidered with messages. [2] Typically, the pincushion was filled with cotton, wool, horsehair, or sawdust, though some were filled with emery powder, an abrasive to clean and sharpen the pins. [3]
A manual prism sharpener generates long fan-shaped shavings Video of a mechanical pencil sharpener, showing gearing and helical sharpening blades video showing a manual prism sharpener A pencil sharpener (or pencil pointer , or in Ireland a parer or topper [ 1 ] ) is a tool for sharpening a pencil 's writing point by shaving away its worn surface.
A hand-held tungsten carbide knife sharpener, with a finger guard, can be used for sharpening plain and serrated edges on pocket knives and multi-tools.. Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a blade, the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting.
Jointing is usually the first step in the process of sharpening: When sharpening a hand saw blade, the teeth are jointed by running a flat file over the tips of the teeth so that they are all of the same height. Circular saw blades are jointed prior to sharpening so that all teeth protrude from the blade the same distance from the centre.
A Thai-themed biscornu, stitched on 14-count white Aida.. A biscornu is a small, octagonal, stuffed ornamental pincushion. [1] It is usually made out of Aida cloth or linen, [2] sewn from two square sheets of cloth (forming the top and bottom of the cushion) in such a way that each corner of one square is hemmed to the middle of a side of the opposite square.
The term is based on the word "whet", which means to sharpen a blade, [3] [4] not on the word "wet". The verb nowadays to describe the process of using a sharpening stone for a knife is simply to sharpen, but the older term to whet is still sometimes used, though so rare in this sense that it is no longer mentioned in, for example, the Oxford Living Dictionaries.
Helicon Filter, formally Helicon NoiseFilter, was introduced in August, 2004 as Helicon Filter 1.61, by Helicon Soft, Ltd., a company based in Kharkov, Ukraine. [1] By 2005, Helicon Filter had become known for its noise reduction ability, [2] though it also had some other basic features such as raw support, exposure correction, color adjustments, red eye removal, and resizing/cropping. [3]
Navarretia is a genus of flowering plants related to the phloxes and the gilias.This is one genus of plants, among others, which are sometimes called pincushion plants. It includes 45 species native to the Americas.