Needles in History | History of Sewing Needles for Embroidery and More 

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@@LynneFairchild It left me with only one question to look up. The Neanderthal didn't have it. Humans did. It made a lot of difference in the Ice Age. Draped hides vs tailored clothes.

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Learned something new! Most of my needle knowledge involves embroidery or fabric sewing. Leather working is something that I have been interested to learn more about in the future.

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No, I have not come across a sewing needle made from thick wire. When I think of wire, I think of something that is pliable. That would not be useful with most sewing projects, as you would want something stiff and pointy to poke through the fabric and guide the thread through.

@@LynneFairchild Thank you so much for sharing and taking your time to text me back... Very few utubers will even do that? I appreciate it! I say it could of been when the different indian tribes were passing through. Have a great weekend! And sending many blessings!

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I kind of was looking for stainless steel needles and ends up figuring out how to make it on my own. I tried punching a needle eye initially as what would be done on copper and brass needle but apparently stainless steel even at 22 HRC is hard enough to make punches slip easily especially on thinner materials that is like 0.02-0.03 inch thick or roughly 0.7 to 0.8 mm that is most common size for embroidery and sharps needles. I ends up bending the flat part of a wire that I intended to make the needle eye on and use a triangular file to file a groove, which after the initial groove is made it is possible to use a thin mini hacksaw blade to carry on "grinding/ sawing" the needle eye out. The process is repeated on both sides of the flats and the results is surprisingly similar to a modern needle. There are evidence of those groove marks on historical needles especially in iron or steel needles as they are significantly harder than copper or bronze. Here is a playlist I made of short videos illustrating the process. ru-vid.com/group/PLXHEUJ4Wt4QfRQrBwz2NSUa4RYuihhLq_&si=MYCWB4SK2Xs1yPac This is a later video on using a modified mini hacksaw blade to make elongated needle eye that's for embroidery needles. Those are 304 stainless steel and there are factory made needles that I used as reference for benchmarking. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vz9fdt3Sh-0.htmlsi=tsDNxzYfti2omvFN

I'm not sure what mistake you are referring to. Around 1195 BC is when the information on hardening iron reached Europe from India. The Bronze Age ended around 1200 BC, which eventually led into the Iron Age.

@@LynneFairchild so why did they need to know the secret of hardening iron, if they ended up creating bronze needles?

Thank you! I am always working on how to better my pronunciation of words.

@@LynneFairchild No worries, the US has taught that pronunciation through media since the 1970’s. I could see your efforts. The video was great! I’m a historian and if you were an undergrad (junior-senior), I would give you an A for your presentation. Thank you for helping with my curiosity.

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