Needle Collection

Bookbinding Tools 1875
Various tools used in bookbinding, including a pair of compasses, a mallet, presses, a knife, a set square, needle and thread, and a gouge

Poster, Chamonix and Mont Blanc, France Date: 1955

Tailoring tools
Tools used in tailoring, including scissors, needle and thread, chalk, measuring tape, a ruler and a smoothing iron

Pinus cembra, Arolla pine - Coloured copper engraving by Warner based on a watercolour by Ferdinand Bauer. A.B. Lambert, A description of the genus Pinus, London, 1803, t. 23 Date: 1803

Macrozamia communis, burrawang palm
Drawing LS 16 from the Watling Collection by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797. Illustration entitled Buroowang

Napes Needle
Rock climbers larking about on Napes Needle, Great Gable, Lake District, Cumbria, England. Date: 1950s

Tools used by a saddler and upholsterer
Various tools used by a saddler and upholsterer, including pliers, pincers, skewers, needles and a knife

Cleopatras Needle / Slide
Cleopatras Needle on the Embankment by night

Jersey, Plemont Caves and Needle Rock, Channel Islands, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Cleopatras Needle and Shell Mex House, London. Date: circa 1940

Cleopatras obelisk or needle and the great sphinx of Giza.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

The Pain-Proof Man & Captain Ringman Jack - Ripley s
Arthur Plumhoff The Human Pincushion - The Pain-Proof Man (left) and Captain Ringman Jack, who lifted weights through holes through his breasts

Araucaria columnaris & A. heterophyllo - Coloured copper engraving by Warner based on watercolours by Ferdinand Bauer, A.B. Lambert, A description of the genus Pinus, London, 1803, t.39 Date: 1803

The NeedleWorker, WW1 knitting with Jessie Pope poem
Page from The Needle Worker from March 1915, advising readers on knitting for men and boys and featuring, The Knitting Song, a poem by Jessie Pope

Scotch fir, Pinus sylvestris. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

The Embankment at Night - Base of Cleopatras Needle
The Embankment at Night - Sphinx at the base of Cleopatras Needle. Date: circa 1910s

John Mad Jack Fullers Obelisk The Brightling Needle, Sussex
John " Mad Jack" Fullers Obelisk: The Brightling Needle, Robertsbridge, East Sussex. Date: 1905

The Improved Ladys Own Sewing Machine by Leigh & Crawford, Brooke Street, Holborn, London EC. 19th century

Surgical equipment including saws, knives and scalpels.. Surgical equipment including amputating and metacarpal saws, knives, catling, bistoury, scalpel, needle, tenaculum

Pinus wallichiana, pine tree
Plate 848 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30, 000 years old
L-R: a) Bone used to make needle blanks. b) Bone needle. c & d) Harpoon head and Barbed Point carved from antler. e & f) Two heads carved in mammoth ivory

Stitch Types Diagram
Leaflet that is promotional & instructional as it clearly & simply shows you how to do various basic handsewing stitches & hems such as handkerchief or rolled hem

Thames Embankment / Somerset House - floodlit
Thames Embankment and Somerset House, London by floodlight

Mending Day, by Ethel Parkinson. A little Dutch girl sits mending a little boys breeches, while he stands uncomfortably with a towel round his waist

Thames Embankment - Cecil and Savoy Hotels

Etretat, France - L Aiguille ( The Needle )
Etretat, Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of France - L Aiguille ( The Needle ) Date: circa 1907

Egypt Alexandria Cleopatra's Needle Victorian period

Cleopatras Needle, Alexandria, Egypt

Cleopatra's Needle, London early 1900s

Climbing The Needle Great Gable Lake District Victorian period

Superior Dorcas Sewing Needles packet, W Clarke & Sons, Mount Pleasant Mills, Redditch

Darners, The Flora MacDonald Needle Packet

Condor Nickel Plated Crewel Needles, packet design

Patent Burnished Egg Eyed Darning Needles packet, manufactured by W Hall & Co, Studley

View of Hangzhou, China, early 1900s

Obelisks at Luxor, Egypt, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Le Rocher Bayard, Dinant, Wallonia, Namur, Belgium
Le Rocher Bayard (right), a 40m high rock needle associated with the Four Sons of Aymon legend, on the river Meuse in Dinant, Wallonia, Namur, Belgium

The Airborne Monument (The Needle) at Oosterbeek, a village in the eastern part of The Netherlands located in the municipality of Renkum in the province of Gelderland. Date: 1952

Battersea Enamelware
This illustration shows three examples of Battersea enamel, in the form of two decorative etui needle cases, with gilt framed portraits of women and children, and a central large blue ornament

Mr Snob the Shoemaker

Jack's Visit to Greenwich III - Father Thames, the Queen, needle and compass belonging to Captain Cook, Greenwich boys

Embankment:The Bronze Sphinx
Embankment: The Bronze Sphinx, near Cleopatra's Needle. Date: circa 1970

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). La ciudad sitiada (The besieged city), novel by Jesus Evaristo Casariego (1939)

Thomas Samuel & Sons British needle Mills in Redditch, Worcestershire. Men making spring steel needles and fish hooks. Date: 1862

A group of female dressmakers working together on an elaborate evening gown. Date: 1853

Tattooing a Maori Chief in New Zealand, during a period of conflict that included the First Taranaki War and the Invasion of the Waikato (1860-1863). Date: early 1860s

Fire walker in trance Natal south Africa c. 1920
Fire walker Natal South Africa c.1920 - man in a trance with 500 pins being inserted in his skin

A German Fakir - man undergoing extreme accupuncture
A German Fakir - man undergoing extreme acupuncture through his neck and tongue - c.1920s

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