Needle Collection

Making a Wish to Meet a Good Mate during the Tanabata Festival, circa 1820-1830 Creator: Gakutei
Making a Wish to Meet a Good Mate during the Tanabata Festival, circa 1820-1830

Richesse et misère ou rien qu'un, 1818. Creator: Louis Maloeuvre
Richesse et misere ou rien qu'un, 1818. (Wealth and Misery or Nothing but One). A thin man stands holding a thread; is he repairing his shirt which hangs on the chair

Portrait of Robert Muys and his Wife Maria Nozeman, 1778. Creator: Nicolaas Muys
Portrait of Robert Muys and his Wife Maria Nozeman, 1778. Robert Muys, an engraver, with his wife Maria in the year they were married. Maria plies needle and thread with a silver thimble

Hier le fusil a aiguille, eux demain... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Hier le fusil a aiguille, eux demain... 19th century

Twin Sewing Bird, 1940. Creator: Oscar Bluhme
Twin Sewing Bird, 1940

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Newcomers at Santa Anita Park Assembly Center in Arcadia, California, receive vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever. Under direction of Dr

Two Chinese Women Examining Thread and a Spider's Web in a Box, from the...", c. 1824. Creator: Gakutei
Two Chinese Women Examining Thread and a Spider's Web in a Box, from the series "Diptych for the Drum Group", c. 1824

Needle and Pin Case, c. 1937. Creator: Ann Gene Buckley
Needle and Pin Case, c. 1937

Needle Case, c. 1937. Creator: Ruth Buker
Needle Case, c. 1937

Domestic Scene, ca. 1780. Creator: Yanagawa Shunsui
Domestic Scene, ca. 1780

Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab. Glenview, Ill. 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Transfusion donor bottles, Baxter Lab. Glenview, Ill. Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood

Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted... Glenview, Ill. 1942. Creator: Howard Hollem
Formerly a sculptress and designer of tiles, Dorothy Cole converted her basement into a workshop to tin plate needles for valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter Laboratories where

Painful (Itaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)
Painful (Itaso), from the series " Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)", 1888

Esemplario di Lauori... title page (recto), August 1, 1532. [From a book of needlework designs]

Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework, 1557. Creator: Giuseppe Porta
Lucretia instructing her daughters in needlework, 1557. From Giovanni Ostaus s, La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorte di recami (Venice, 1557), a book on needlework

Two Women Sewing, Plate 1 from Five Feminine Occupations, ca. 1640-57

Gramophone, c. 1937. Creator: Charles Bowman
Gramophone, c. 1937

Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates), 1793 / 1794. Creator: Gilbert Stuart
Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates), 1793/1794

Lady Threading Needle on Verandah, 19th century. Creator: Gakutei
Lady Threading Needle on Verandah, 19th century

Tailoring. Miniature in Tacuinum sanitatis, illuminated manuscript of the late 14th century

The Iron Stove, 1901. Artist: Edward Henry Wehnert
The Iron Stove, 1901. From Grimms Household Stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. [George Routledge & Sons, Limited, London, 1901]

Queen Matilda And Her Tapestry, (c1850). Matilda (1031-1083), queen consort of the Kingdom of England and the wife of William the Conqueror, is supposed to have worked on the Bayeux Tapestry

The doctor makes his visits, c1900. French advertising for Liebig Extract of Meat. Private Collection

Needle-making equipment, 1819. The large machine at bottom right is George Priors dry grinder with a box partly enclosing the grindstone to minimise dust (1813)

Opening of the 1851 London to Paris telegraph link (1852)
Opening of the 1851 London to Paris telegraph link. Instrument room at the Submarine Telegraph Company, Cornhill, London, showing the Wheatstone needle telegraph instruments

Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), British physicist, 19th century
Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), British physicist. Pioneer in electrical resistances. Along with partner William Cooke, responsible for the invention of the electric telegraph, 19th century

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstones five-needle telegraph, patented 1837, (19th century)
William Cooke (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstones (1802-1875) five-needle telegraph. Patented 1837, installed 1839, (19th century)

Diagram of William Cooke and Charles Wheatstones five-needle telegraph, 1837, (19th century)
Diagram of William Cooke (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstones (1802-1875) five-needle telegraph. Patented 1837, installed 1839, (19th century)

A magnetized needle pushed through a ball of cork, floating submerged in a goblet of water, 1600. The needle shows the dip and the direction of the magnetic pole. From De Magnete by William Gilbert

Needle making workshop, 1751-1780. Cutting needle lengths from steel wire (1), flattening the end (4), stamping the eye (2), punching the eye (3), filing the eye and pointing the end (7)

Pin and needle maker, c1559-1591. Artist: Jost Amman
Pin and needle maker, c1559-1591. A craftsman and two assistants busy in a workshop

Feather-dresser, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

Grinding needle points, Redditch, England, c1830. A grindstone driven by water or steam. Needle grinding was well-paid work but the lives of grinders were short owing to the inhalation of dust

Die-stamping the channel and eye position on needle wires, Redditch, England, c1835. The operation used a foot-operated 13.6kg hammer

Needle-making, 1751-1780. Securing needles in polishing roll (1), polishing under a lead weight (5, 6), washing (2), drying (3), inspecting (4), and grinding points (7)

Needles: equipment for needle making from shears to cut wire (14) to polishing roll (13). From Diderots Encyclopedie. (Paris, 1751-1780)

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