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. High-quality embroidery needles are plated with two-thirds platinum and one-third titanium alloy. Traditionally, needles have been kept in needle books or needlecases which have become objects of adornment.[1] Sewing needles may also be kept in an étui, a small box that held needles and other items such as scissors, pencils and tweezers.[2]
A sewingneedle, 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...
for a mechanical device to aid the art of sewing, in 1755. His invention consisted of a double pointed needle with an eye at one end. In 1790, the English...
Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a sewingneedle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile...
A sewing machine needle is a specialized needle for use in a sewing machine. A sewing machine needle consists of: shank - clamped by the sewing machine's...
mechanically operated. These may be part of a sewing or embroidery machine, or standalone tools. The first known use of needle threaders in Europe was in the eighteenth...
Glossary of dyeing terms. Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of...
for knitting, not as sharp as a sewingneedleSewingneedle, a long slender tool with a pointed tip Trussing needle, a long slender tool, sometimes with...
most sewingneedles. Yarn is threaded through the hollow needle via an opening at the top of its handle, and out through the eye. A punch needle stitch...
pass from the needle thread to the edges of the fabric so that the edges of the fabric are contained within the seam. Overlock sewing machines usually...
eye of a needle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eye of the needle or eye of a needle is the tunnel-like space near one end of a sewingneedle. Eye of...
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...
design was the first practical sewing machine for general domestic use. It incorporated the basic eye-pointed needle and lock stitch, developed by Elias...
lockstitch is the most common mechanical stitch made by a sewing machine. The term "single needle stitching", often found on dress shirt labels, refers to...
750) for a sewing machine using a lockstitch design. His machine contained the three essential features common to most modern machines: a needle with the...
long shaft and taper at their end, but they are not nearly as sharp as sewingneedles. Their purpose is two-fold. The long shaft holds the active (unsecured)...
combination sewing-embroidery machines have a hooping or framing system that holds the framed area of fabric taut under the sewingneedle and moves it...
The Great British Sewing Bee is a BBC reality show that began airing on BBC Two on 2 April 2013. In the show, talented amateur sewers compete to be named...
A needlecase or needle case is a small, often decorative, holder for sewingneedles. Early needlecases were usually small tubular containers of bone,...
side motion of the sewing machine's needle is controlled by a cam. As the cam rotates, a fingerlike follower, connected to the needle bar, rides along the...
The Golden NeedleSewing School was an underground school for women in Herat, Afghanistan, during the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Because women...
Needlework is decorative sewing and textile arts handicrafts. Anything that uses a needle for construction can be called needlework. Needlework may include...
either inserting a welt or by sewing a strip over the seam. 1882- Hollow SewingNeedle This invention is a hollow sewingneedle designed to hold a significant...
doubtless this which led Franklin in 1751 to attempt to magnetize a sewing-needle by means of the discharge of Leyden jars." The electromagnetic force...
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