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Title: The netting book for guipure d'art, &c..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Riego de la Branchardière, Eléonore
Subjects: Lace and lace making Netting
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
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ibition Prize Medal,Awarded for very Strong & Paris Universal Exhibition Vienna First Class most superior Thread. Gold Medal. Medal for Progress. Manufacturer to the Queen, of Needles, Pins, Fish Hooks, Hooks and Eyes, Hair Pins, Thimbles, fyc.Warehouse—47, GRESHAM STREET, LONDON, KO. Manufactory—ALCESTER. H. Walkers Needles have longenjoyed great popularity with those whovalue really good Needles. They havebeen greatly altered by PatentedImprovements of a most importantcharacter. H. Walkers Patent PenelopeCrochets have had so many imita-tions, it is necessary to repeat theinquest that all who wish for the trueNeedle will see that the word Pene-lope is on the handle. The new Patent UncotopicHandles to the Penelope Needleshave the word Uncotopic oneach, and persons who wouldavoid disappointment will pleaseto observe these trade marks.The Uncotopic Handle keepsthe Needle at all times in thetrue position for work, and isinvaluable alike to a beginner,or to an accomplished worker.
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A. B C. Fig. L S^ Fig. 2. The following is from The Engineer,of May 4, 1859:— Difficult as it mayappear to entirely change the structureof so small an article, the figures aboveshow what may be done even with theeye of a Needle. Fig. 1. A. is a ridge or slightlyraised part before the eye; B, the eye;C, a groove beyond the eye into whichthe thread falls. Fig. 2 is a side view of the part A,B,0,showing the threadrecessed as iu sewing,when the usual pressure of the thimbledrives the Needle with its threadat once through the cloth, afford-ing relief of no ordinary charac-ter to the tailor or seampstress,and saving much of their timeWe have submitted theseNeedles to a good judge of sucharticles, who has declared themsuperior to all others, not onlyas above stated, but particularlyalso with relation to facility ofthreading. Bell Gauge.—To insure correctness in the size of the Needles used in Mile. Biegos publications, a drawing of the Gaugeby which they are numbered, is now given. All K

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