Thread Collection (page 3)

Man at work repairing a saddle
Man at work repairing something on a saddle, London horseguards. Date: circa 1960s

China - Young Street Tailor Girls. Date: circa 1906

Myanmar - A weaver at work using a wooden frame loom Date: circa 1910

Willem van Heythuysen (1585-1650), by Frans Hals (1580-1666)
Frans Hals (1580-1666). Dutch painter. Portrait of Willem van Heythuysen (1585-1650). 1625-1630. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Bust of Painful Virgin, ca. 1755, by Francisco Salzillo (1707
Francisco Salzillo (1707-1783). Spanish sculptor. Painful Virgin. Ca. 1755. Museum of Albacete. Spain

Tinker, Tailor playing card - Tailor, Stephen Stitch. 20th century

The Spinner by Pierre Adolphe Huas
The Spinner. circa 1870s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Jack Tar the Sailors Wife. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Putt the Golfers Wife. circa 1930s

Cats and Kittens - The Pick of the Basket. early 20th century

Boy and girl with large ladybird on a Christmas card
Boy and girl with a large red and black ladybird on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

St Nicholas Home, Pyrford, Surrey - Girls Sewing
Two girls engaged in drawn thread work at the St Nicholas Home for crippled children at Pyrford, near Woking, Surrey. The home was run by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: Date unknown

Pressed violets on a handmade greetings card, with handwritten note. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Handmade greetings card with pressed violets and a handwritten note inside. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Clarks Anchor Threads 1925
Clarks Anchor Threads Date: 1925

Harris Tweed
Isle of Harris, Scotland - hand-spinning the thread for Harris tweed Date: 1920s

Paranormal: William S. Marriott flower levitation trick
The British magician William S. Marriott exposing the practices of fraudulent spiritual mediums. Thanks to invisible thread, a flower is mysteriously levitated from a vase. Date: 1910

Kitten with cotton reel on a birthday card
Kitten with red cotton reel on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Pink rose on a New Year card by Hyatt, dated 1879, with a thread to pull for a three-dimensional effect. Date: 1879

Gift tag, birthday cake with eight candles. Date: circa 1920s

Greetings card, white daisies in a basket, with two white tassels. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card, Moss Roses, held together by a silk thread. circa 1890s

Advert for Clarkes Embroidery, 1927
Advert for Clarkes Embroidery - the quest for the ideal thread for fine embroidery Date: 1927

Collectors card, nun working on a tapestry. Date: early 20th century

Cover design, Weldons Beautiful Needlework, No. 2, showing a young woman in a crinoline dress sewing. Date: circa 1920s

Atlantic thread herring, Opisthonema oglinum, and European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Duffs mechanical draw boy for a drawloom, 19th century.. Duffs draw boy, a thread-arranging machine for a drawloom used in weaving, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by W

Thread-leaved gethylis with white and lilac flowers, Gethylis spiralis.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss Botanical Magazine

Indian woman preparing thread for the loom.. handcolored copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from Asiatic Costumes, Ackermann, London, 1828

Group of girls on a Balham street, SW London
Group of girls playing on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Willimantic Thread trade card, with the profile of a young woman in a red scarf. The Willimantic Thread Company won three medals at the New Orleans World Cotton Exposition of 1884 for the excellent

A Chinese Woman darning, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

A Chinese Woman making a bobbin, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

A Chinese Woman spinning, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

India - Thread-like bridge over the Jadh-Gunga
Black and white. Thin, delicate bridge strung between sheer faced walls of a huge gorge. A man is visible on the bridge.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 229. Date: circa 1890s

India - Bhairoghat thread-like bridge over Jadh-Gunga Gorge
Black and white. Thin, delicate bridge strung between sheer faced walls of a huge gorge. A man is visible on the bridge.. Part of India Box, Boswell Collection. Slide number 229 and 61

Weaver 1827
Weaving is the art of making threads into cloth. Here the Weaver is engaged at work at the loom (a machine by which several distinct threads of any kind are woven together). Date: 1827

Young woman spinning thread, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

A tale of Clarks O. N. T. Spool Cotton
A tale of Clarks O.N.T. Spool Cotton. Mournful the tale, and sad the sight, o, shed a tear for Joness plight. His clothes were new but ah, the cotton theyd sewed them with, alas was rotten

Norway - Traditional Costume - Children
Norwegian children in traditional dress. Good examples of Hardanger embroidery or Hardangersom - a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white even-weave cloth

Taking thread: Sound-Waves on a Cord 1922
Mr. W F Croll, who holds the parent, of a method of recording and reproducing sound-waves by means of a cellulose thread instead of by the generally known disc or cylinder record

Irish Girl at her spinning wheel Date: circa 1903

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind
" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942

Spinning wool - Tangiers, Morocco Date: circa 1910s

Norway - Traditional Costume - Mother and daughter
Norwegian Mother and daughter (and pet dog!) in traditional dress. Good examples of Hardanger embroidery or Hardangersom - a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white

Thread and Needle Street, St. Georges, Bermuda
Thread and Needle Street, St. George s, Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

Glove knitted from the beard threads of the pen shell (Pin
Made in the 1700s from the beard threads of the pen shell (Pinna nobilis), a large Mediterranean mollusc

The Magic Patches. Orphan girl Linda sews patches on the coat of a beggar-man

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