Needlework tools from around the world, some which can be used and others are just for collecting

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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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Last updated 8 July 2008

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