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- Old-Time Tools & Toys of Needlework
- ISBN
- 0486225178
- EAN
- 9780486225173
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- Paperback / softback
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Date of Publication
- 19720401
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- Release Title
- Old-Time Tools & Toys of Needlework
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- Whiting, Gertrude
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- Publication Year
- 1972
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Topic
- Crafts
- Item Width
- 165mm
- Item Weight
- 523g
- Number of Pages
- 357 Pages
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It was quite fashionable among the ladies of Marie Antoinette's court to employ stilettos and punches for parfilage. They unpicked the gold and silver threads from the richly embroidered material of their gowns and cloaks. A set of bone bobbins was found in England with the Lord's Prayer spirally incised phrase by phrase along each bobbin's length. A clever French inventor designed a pair of scissors with eighteen different uses - screwdriver, nail file, cigar cutter, ruler, lid pryer, buttonholder adjuster - to name just a few. These and many other artifacts and instruments of sewing, weaving, and spinning are considered from a historical, cultural, and antique collecting point of of view. Gertrude Whiting, Honorary Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fellow of the Institute Professional Neuchatelois de Dentelles, describes and illustrates nearly all the paraphernalia, accoutrements, appliances, accessories, and doodads associated with all yarn and thread handicrafts from knitting, embroidery, and dressmaking to warp weaving, batik making, and lace making. Examples of winders, scissors, thimbles, measures, knitting needles, crochet hooks, bodkins, punches, sewing needles, pins, pincushions, hoops, frames, bobbins, shuttles, spinning wheels, and sewing machines are taken from such widely scattered cultures as Java, ancient Egypt, Victorian England, and pre-revolutionary Russia. For each artifact, the author gives a history of its invention, an etymology, its age, lore, use, and a variety of literary and artistic sources in which it is mentioned or depicted. This unique work is extremely rich in illustrations, including many photographs of objects from private collections. It will certainly awaken those who take these tools for granted to a new world of possibilities and will spur those who collect them on to new endeavors.
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Book Title
Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework
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Paperback
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English
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Crafts
Publication Year
1972
Number of Pages
357 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
165mm
Item Weight
523g
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