In days gone by I would have ordered the non-standard bobbins my sewing machine uses from his shop and got them in mere weeks. |
The largest is the drawer machine which has 4 feeds and knits from four bobbins. |
The bobbins not actually in use hang down fixed as in lace work by a half-hitch. |
The family room tree has a sewing theme, with spools, bobbins and buttons for ornaments. |
As in the slubber, intermediate, and roving frames, the rove is taken from two bobbins for one spindle. |
In the 1970s he sold hundreds of skipping ropes made from old Yorkshire mill bobbins to American customers. |