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2. Sewing needle - Wikipedia

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   Sewing needle. 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. Henry Milward & Sons - Wikipedia

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   Colonel Henry Milward was a fervent fly angler who decided to mix business with pleasure when he created Milward's Fishing Tackle Company as part of his centuries -old needle-factory. A dozen workers left needle- and syringe -making to become experts in hooks, flies, devons, spoons and split-cane rods. This remarkable adventure lasted until ...

4. Sewing machine needle - Wikipedia

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   A sewing machine needle is a specialized needle for use in a sewing machine. A sewing machine needle consists of: [1] shank - clamped by the sewing machine's needle holder. shoulder - where the thick shank tapers down to the shaft. shaft - a length suitable for driving the eye and thread through the material and down to the bobbin.

5. White Family Rotary - Wikipedia

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   drop. needle (s) one 15x1. The White Family Rotary or White FR, later White Rotary or White Rotary Electric, was the first rotary hook sewing machine produced by the White Sewing Machine Company, introduced circa 1900. [1] It joined the successful White Vibrating Shuttle on White's expanding product line and eventually eclipsed it.

6. Sewing - Wikipedia

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   For thousands of years, all sewing was done by hand. The invention of the sewing machine in the 19th century and the rise of computerization in the 20th century led to mass production and export of sewn objects, but hand sewing is still practiced around the world. [2] Fine hand sewing is a characteristic of high-quality tailoring, haute couture ...

7. Torrington Company - Wikipedia

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   The Torrington Company was a firm that developed in Torrington, Connecticut, originally called the 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 produced a lot of other things as it got bigger, since the 1950/ focusing mainly on producing bearings, especially needle bearings.