Needlework tools (A - N)  
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Needlework tools from around the world, some which can be used and others are just for collecting


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chatelaines - crochet hooks - darning mushrooms - emeries - handwork
knitting needles - knitting needle gauges - lace bobbins - lucets - needlebooks

Chatelaines

8/687 = $612
[England]
Cut-steel

6 patterned chains of cut steel
4 that are matching, plus 2 thinner chains
chain 1: folding steel scissors that are folded with points hidden
chain 2: folding steel corkscrew & a horseshoe-shaped pinwheel
chain 3: steel penknife & chain coin purse
chain 4: steel needlebook that opens with folded leather needle packet with original threads
chain 5: steel notebook with ivory leaves
chain 6: steel propelling pencil & a steel open-ended container with wax - dried -


clasp

corkscrew

coin purse

pincushion

notebook


scissors

penknife

pencil


needlebook

wax

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Crochet hooks
All photos & measurements taken without covers


14/7 = $9
England - Aluminium alloy
Stratnoid
Pat No 151307
size 8
135mm



14/9 = $9
England - Aluminium alloy
Stratnoid
Pat No 151307 ]
size 14
128mm

e35 = $3
England - Steel
Patterned shank - worn
size 3
126mm


e37 = $3
Steel
Morris & Y Lomans
patterned shank - worn
size 1?
126mm
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Darning mushrooms

16/40 = $6
wood
100mm
- chip on handle -

bk865 = $6
Painted wood

110mm
- paint worn off top of mushroom -

uu504 = $5
Painted cream wood

painted blue underneath
103mm
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Emeries

8/426 = $30
[Japan]
Silk

Pre WW2
33mm
- silk faded & worn -

bb539 = $35
dog affixed with original thread
not modern
- seams of cushion have been mended -
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Handwork

8/481 = $25
Bristol board [perforated card] handwork
Modern Love stitched to represent a weighing scale
threads suspend the "weights"
modern piece of perspex affixed to support the scale
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Knitting needles

uu506 = $5
Australia
Bamboo

size 4 1/2
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Knitting needle gauges

bk1046 = $9
Australia?
Rainsford needle gauge

sizes 1-22
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Lace bobbins

This collection of wooden bobbins has been used for lace making over the last two centuries. There are signs of use but they are in good condition considering their age. Most of the descriptions I have used, come from Nerylla Taunton's Antique needlework tools and embroideries.


8/381 = $72
England - wooden
Early 19th century

Eight, for Honiton lace making
similar designs of incisions, stained in alternating red & black
- some have the staining worn -


Antique wooden lace bobbins with spangles traditionally come from the East Midlands of England, Victorian 1840-1900. All are inscised & the number in ( ) is the number of beads in the spangle. The timber is dark


8/392 = $20
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle is a glass opalescent button

8/394 = $20
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle with two green faceted glass beads, with shanks (3)

8/395 = $20
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle with black faceted glass bottom bead (4)

8/399 = $25
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle (9)

8/403 = $20
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle beads are small (7)

8/404 = $25
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle beads are clear, amber & turquoise (5)

8/405 = $25
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle beads are pink, clear & brown (7)

8/406 = $30
England - wooden
Mid-Victorian

spangle beads are pinks (Venetian glass) & clear (5)

8/390 = $10
England - wooden
Modern (1980s)

pale wood, using old glass bead spangles (5)

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Lucets
replica of an 18th C tool

uu520 = $5
wood
commemorating Needlework Tool Collectors Society of Australia's
conference 2002

includes directions how to use the lucet
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Needlebooks

8/708 = $20
Victorian needlebook
embossed paper and Bristol board
Many waters cannot quench love
neither can floods drown 1860

102x75mm
-- front paper cover is missing the figures in the circular part -
- back top corner has detached -
- red doctor’s flannel inside is moth eaten -
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