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This is a Super 8 film reel from a 1970's home video projector. The movie is about a wedding in my family (they are still married). I found this a long time ago along with its rusty metal case in the basement. By 2000 it was transferred to a VHS tape and years later to a CD disk.
Projectors are still searched and used by collectors and used in vintage movie theaters. Today they are no longer used at weddings, celebrations and in modern cinemas.
Macro Mondays: #Anachronism
(I'm having problems with Flickr running too slow today, not showing the photos sometimes. I'll catch up tomorrow. Thank you! 💕
Macro Mondays theme: Reels!
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Those straw bales remind me of wooden cotton reels.
Did anyone ever get a wooden cotton reel, a pencil, a match stick, a slice of candle and a rubber band and make a vehicle that could race across the floor? Or combine several cotton reels to make a more powerful vehicle?
Have I got to make one and photograph it to show you what it is like? Fifty years ago I would have said, "What's a PlayStation?" Now, bet kids say, "What's a cotton reel?"
An old reel of cotton thread on a cotton fabric background.
(Both the height & diameter of the reel are 3.5cm/less than 1.5 inches) HMM!
this is how to fly, smash your jewels, roll in pain, and then just turn it into sexy time! enjoy ; )
full size here:
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When it was my birthday six months ago, a very dear friend who enjoys photography as much as I do, and knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces, gave me a wonderful selection of antique ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and other fine notions. She also gave me three follow up tins of similar delightful gifts for Christmas.
Those wonderful gifts are what has inspired me to create this series of "Embroider my World" images featuring my vintage bobbin collection. In this case, the wonderfully delicate net baric embroidered with minute blue and pale pink sequins I bought yesterday from a shop that specialises in luxurious and unusual fabrics. I could hardly wait to use it! The fabric was manufactured in Milan. I have accessorised them on a 1930s embroidered tablecloth with two Dewhurst's Sylko Peach Rose reels of cotton which dates from between 1938 and 1954 and a small Edwardian cotton reel of soft Kingfisher Blue made by J. P. Coats.
Belle Vue Mill, commonly known as Dewhurst’s, was built by Thomas Dewhurst in 1828. It opened in 1829 as John Dewhurst & Sons and was one of Skipton’s largest spinning and weaving mills. The mill’s position next to the Leeds Liverpool Canal meant that raw cotton could be shipped in by boats from Liverpool. Finished goods would then be sent back the same way ready for distribution. Coal to power the machine’s steam engines was also delivered by barge. In 1897 Dewhurst’s was bought by the English Sewing Cotton Co. It continued to produce Sylko, one of the mill’s most famous products. It was produced in over 500 colours and sold throughout the world. Sylko cottons are still available at haberdashers today.
In 1802 James Coats set up a weaving business in Paisley. In 1826 he opened a cotton mill at Ferguslie to produce his own thread and, when he retired in 1830, his sons, James & Peter, took up the business under the name of J. & P. Coats. In 1952 J. & P. Coats and the Clark Thread Co. merged to become Coats & Clark's. Today, the business is known as the Coats Group.
Although not too bad this time, when fishing line spills off the reel it can be disastrous.
125 Pictures in 2025, theme # 93 Spilled
Film is still alive in the movies, with a modest percentage of features still shot on film, even if every step between the editing room and the big screen is digital. If you know where to look, a handful of theatres still run film at least occasionally (the closest house still showing the reel thing exclusively, mostly in 35mm with the rest in 16mm, is about 120 miles [193km] from home). The same slogan applies to still photography, as well.
Of course, the message could be read as an order to go out and record people and animals going about their usual (and sometimes unusual) ways on any convenient movie device you have.
(In case you wonder, the irony of taking a digital picture of a hat promoting genuine film is not lost on me.)
I've wanted to take a photo like this for ages, and I had a chance when I visited Beckford Silk.
34. Many in 52 in 2018 Challenge