Thread: A Crown?
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Old 05-31-2012, 04:41 AM
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callen
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I have a New Williams machine which was made in Quebec, Canada in the late 1800's with the exact same type of thing on the top. I believe that is somehow to add tension to the thread as you are sewing.
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