This book illustrates nearly all the paraphernalia, accoutrements, appliances, accessories, and doodads associated with all yarns and thread handicrafts from knitting, embroidery, and dressmaking to warp weaving and lace making. Examples of winders, scissors, thimbles,
measures, knitting needles, crochet hooks, bodkins, punches, sewing needles, pins, pincushions, hoops, frames, bobbins, shuttles, spinning wheels and sewing machines are taken from such widely scattered cultures as Java, ancient Egypt, Victorian England and pre-revolutionary Russia.