Sentence examples for a bobbin of thread. from inspiring English sources
In the 1870s, Asahel Shurtleff helped to civilize floss when he patented the first dispenser: a bobbin of thread with a U-shaped prong sticking out of its side.
I spend 15 minutes wrestling with a recalcitrant bobbin of thread and disintegrating strands of yellow chenille before another classmate takes pity on me and finishes wrapping my fly for me.
One of the symbols on the seal is a bobbin of nylon yarn.
A bobbin of fishing line?
In a textile mill girlish fingers fly over spinning bobbins of thread, while a village choir rehearses an ode to planting.
His father worked in the fashion industry, so Dr. Mann's childhood toys in Hamilton, Ontario, were bobbins of thread and knitting needles.
Load a bobbin with thread.
Learn to wind a bobbin and thread your sewing machine.
"If we make a sacrifice to the gods maybe we'll get a few more [done]," Averett says with a grin as she sits behind an industrial Juki sewing machine, a dozen bobbins of colored thread dancing above her head like a seamstress' thought balloon.
In Brussels application the motifs could be made either by bobbin (an elongated spool of thread) or by needle; in Honiton they were always bobbin-made.
