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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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    It is a thin, tapered metal shaft, coming to a sharp point, either straight or slightly bent. These shafts are often in the form of interchangeable needles. They usually have an eye piercing at the pointed end to aid in drawing thread through holes for the purpose of manual lockstitch sewing, in which case it is also called a sewing awl ...

  4. Sewing machine needle - Wikipedia

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    Parts of a sewing machine needle and comparison of several types of needle points and parts. 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 ...

  5. 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, as Torrington expanded, it began to produce other goods.

  6. Darning - Wikipedia

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    Hand darning employs the darning stitch, a simple running stitch in which the thread is "woven" in rows along the grain of the fabric, with the stitcher reversing direction at the end of each row, and then filling in the framework thus created, as if weaving. Darning is a traditional method for repairing fabric damage or holes that do not run ...

  7. Thimble - Wikipedia

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    A thimble is a small pitted cup worn on the finger that protects it from being pricked or poked by a needle while sewing. The Old English word þȳmel , the ancestor of thimble, is derived from Old English þūma , the ancestor of the English word thumb .

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