Bobbin
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A bobbin or spool is a spindle or cylinder, with or without flanges, on which yarn, thread, wire, tape or film is wound. Bobbins are typically found in industrial textile machinery, as well as in sewi
Vintage wooden bobbins, cylindrical, empty of wound fiber, dimensions 16 in. high by 9 in. in diameter.
Vintage wooden bobbin, unflanged, wound with yarn and attached to a "shuttle" that fits it for use in a floor loom.
Hand bobbin winder from c. 1900.
Hua Nan sewing machine 06
Vibrating shuttle
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A vibrating shuttle is a bobbin driver design used in home lockstitch sewing machines during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. It supplanted earlier transvers
Vibrating shuttle in its carrier
Singer bullet shuttle with bobbin exposed
Page 2 from Wilson's patent 7776, showing the shuttle
Underside of Gold Medal "Home", showing Stephen French's vibrator design