Sewing Machine Pages - Sewing Notions, Threads, etc.

Sewing Machine Pages: Sewing Notions, Threads, Haberdashery etc.

Sewing Notions is the term used for threads, zips, fasteners, and all manner of mysterious things...
Page updated 18th January 2013

Trimmings

Braids are all unused

NO032 1.5 metres beige fringe braid; £1.50

NO031 2 metres red/green fringe braid; £2

NO039 1.5 metres green fringe braid; £1.50

NO033 2 metres cream fringe braid; £2

NO034 5 metres dark green fringe braid; £5

NO035 1.5 metres dark/light green fringe braid; £1.50

NO036 1.25 metres multi-coloured fine fringe braid; £1.25

NO037 8 metres dark blue fringe braid; £8

NO038 2.5 metres blue/white fringe braid; £2.50

Threads

The following are vintage items. Don't expect them to be suitable for mending your jeans... Embroidery threads are clean and usable and unfaded as far as I can see, but please be aware that they may not be as colour-fast as modern threads

NO021 Flossette thread reels by Esplen D'or (best name yet...); one each of colour 536 Dk green-blue and colour 670 Dk Navy; £1 each

NO027 Nice chunky metal silver cord, 4 metres; £6

NO011 Pearsall's "Sheba" stranded rayon thread, one 9 yd skein in shade 33, Sky Blue; £1

NO012 Perilusta mercerised cotton, white, size F (Extra Fine) Five 60-yard skeins and tatty outer wrapper; £5

NO015 Pearsall's "Pamela" Crewel Silks - fine soft threads
(Below) 4 x 6 Rust
3 x 149 Light Orange
4 x 7 Brown
4 x 95a Orange
(Right) 2 x 64 Light Pink
1 x 131 Blue
2 x 113 Olive green
6 x 93x Very Pale Pink
3 x 64x Cream
6 x 73 Lilac
£1 each or 6 for £5

The following are vintage items. Don't expect them to be suitable for mending your jeans... Nice to have, and they look really good on your restored antique machine...

NO001 Perfect, unused, tiny wooden reels of thread - particularly nice for toy machine collectors.. The grid under the reels is in inches...
Black only; £1 each

NO005 Nice vintage cards of snap fasteners: 50p each

NO028 Vintage Eve safety pins; £1.50

My address is:-
Helen Howes, 4, The Raveningham Centre, Beccles Road, Raveningham, Norfolk, NR14 6NU. United Kingdom
01508 548137
helen@raindropkites.co.uk