Manufacturing of Needles for Sewing and Embroidery Machine.Opportunities forEntrepreneurs to Start Own Industry.
A sewing needle, used for hand-sewing, may bea long slender tool with a pointed tip at one end and a hole (or eye) at theother. The earliest needles were manufactured from bone or wood; modern needlesare manufactured from high steel wire and are nickel- or 18K gold-plated forcorrosion resistance. Top quality embroidery needles are plated with two-thirdsplatinum and one-third titanium alloy. Traditionally, needles are kept inneedle books or needle cases which became objects of decoration. Sewing needlescan also be kept in an étui, little box that held needles and other items likescissors, pencils and tweezers. There are only two varieties of sewing needlesfor sewing by hand and needle for sewing on a machine.
Needlesize
Needle size is denoted by oneor more numbers on the manufacturer's packet. The general convention for sizingof needles, like that of wire gauges, is that within any given class of needlethe length and thickness of a needle increases as the size number decreases.For example, a size 9 needle will be thicker and longer than a size 12 needle.However, the needle sizes are not standardized and so a size 10 of one classmay be (and in some cases actually is) either thinner or finer than a size 12of another type. Where a packet contains a needle count followed by two sizenumbers such as "20 Sharps 5/10" the second set of numbers correspondto the range of sizes of needle within the packet, in this case typically tensharps needles of size 5 and ten of size 10 (for a total of 20 needles). Asanother example, a packet labeled "16 Milliners 3/9" would contain 16milliners’ needles ranging in sizes from 3 to 9.
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