Originally Posted by
mcadwell
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Looked up wooden handled seam rippers (because why not?) - found some for $35 (yikes!)...or $1.18 in 1904. That seemed expensive for a seam ripper back then so I looked up seam rippers of the day and I couldn't find anything except for patents. And they looked funny too:
https://medium.com/@willi3lk/the-seam-ripper-bf1239de33
....Regardless, after all this I remembered I had a seam ripper, with a (plastic) wood looking handle, in my traveling sewing kit. Another tool done.
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I now have darning needles (in the vial) and extra safety pins (not the best quality). The scissors work wonderfully, have a nice heft, seem quality and are Victorianly...
When I was little, I remember holding and pulling apart the seam as my mother used a straight edge blade to rip a seam. I think a
sewing bird would add to the Victorian sewing tools.
I don't know if the darning needles would fit in the wooden tube like
http://www.acmenotions.com/cohawoneca.html There are some on Amazon and Hobby Lobby, too. Back in the day, Boye would put
needles and shuttles in wooden tubes.
The Singer
Material Gripper and the
Needle Threader were actually from the 1930s, so maybe not Victorian.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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