A Rats Nest??
#1
I think that is what my mother would call this. I recently bought a vintage singer and she came with vintage bobbins, of which, they came with crappy thread on them.
So I needed to take the thread off so I could put good thread on it. As I unwound the bobbin, there were 13 different colors of thread on this same bobbin. Seems as soon as I finally got one off, there was another one.
Was it a common practice to put thread on an already threaded bobbin?
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So I needed to take the thread off so I could put good thread on it. As I unwound the bobbin, there were 13 different colors of thread on this same bobbin. Seems as soon as I finally got one off, there was another one.
Was it a common practice to put thread on an already threaded bobbin?
[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/SANY0112.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/SANY0113.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/SANY0114.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/SANY0115.jpg[/IMG]
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In those days, when that machine was a youngster, people didn't go to a WalMart and buy 10 bobbins at a time, they had probably two at the most and rather than undo the color and rewind another, which was considered wasteful, they would just wind the new color over the other. Some of us grew up as products of the Great Depression and waste not, want not was the rule of the day. To this day, I have a hard time throwing anything away.
#7
Originally Posted by Yooper32
In those days, when that machine was a youngster, people didn't go to a WalMart and buy 10 bobbins at a time, they had probably two at the most and rather than undo the color and rewind another, which was considered wasteful, they would just wind the new color over the other. Some of us grew up as products of the Great Depression and waste not, want not was the rule of the day. To this day, I have a hard time throwing anything away.
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