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Actually quite annoying it is.
Happy Canada Day weekend
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 58mm f/2 with a reversed rear element
my thoughts on this lens config:
A spool from an old step sewing machine that belonged to my mother
Looking close on Friday's theme: Spools of thread
I call this image "Blown Spool" because in the prior shot "Spool Aurora" there was a round portion that looked like a wooden spool that this aurora was wrapped around, and that segment looked like it just blew open - the green cup-like area at the top. I turns out that we had a very intense solar storm that night, an article appeared in the news the next day saying it was the strongest in six years.
Taken 23 March 2023 near North Pole, Alaska.
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 58mm f/2 with a reversed rear element
my thoughts on this lens config:
When it was my birthday two years agp, 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 I am using three of my Dewhurst's Sylko Lotus Blue reels of cotton: the larger of which, on the darker wooden spool with the black and gold label, dates from between 1909 and 1938, and the smaller two featuring the name as well as the shade number which date from between 1938 and 1954. The three spools sit atop some pale blue floral patterned lace and are accessorised by some vintage floral appliques, some vintage embroidered floral ribbon, an Art Deco glass button, a sterling silver thimble with an enamelled cap from 1930 and a beautiful German Art Deco half-doll with bobbed hair dressed in blue.
The "half-doll" is a dainty porcelain or bisque figurine, fashionable in the early Twentieth Century with an upper body, head, arms, but no legs. These dolls were produced in the thousands at the height of their popularity by German factories such as Dressel and Kister, Heubach, Goebel and Kestner. Later they were produced in France, America and later still, in Japan. They commonly served as handles and toppers for fabric covers made for powder boxes on ladies’ dressing tables and small brushes, however they were also made for jewellery boxes, pincushions, tea cosies and other covers. In this case, my German half-doll is decorated in fashionable contemporary (for the time) Art Deco style dress with an Eaton Crop hairdo. I imagine that she would have been made for a lady’s boudoir and was most likely the topper for a powder bowl or even a powder puff. She has been hand painted.
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.
I call this one Spool Aurora because the circular area near the top that reminds me of a wooden spool. This was shot the night of the 23rd of March when we had a very strong solar storm.
Taken 23 March 2023 near North Pole, Alaska.
Spools of thread in sea green and soft green.
Texture added: Green plaster 2 by clive sax.
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Spooling machinery as part of a Ribbon Loom
Bandweberei Sohn, Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen (GER)
New serial - Part Six
Kitty seems to have found a little drawer of thread. The thread box is resting on my sewing chair. 🐈🐱
A good friend of ours carved this little nativity set from wooden spools. The little baby can be removed from the creche - one of the smallest spools I have ever seen.
120 Pictures in 2021 #20 Carved
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This is a decorative string made of recycled paper and my second attempt to understand what the word string means😊
In any case, let's protect nature!
(the spool diameter is 3.5 cm)
HMM!
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Bottle of Thread Spools viewed at Past Perfect Too....a "shabby chic" type decor store.
Lawton, OK.
note: Level 3 contrast edit in Flickr Photo Editor.
Over the years this spool pops out when the water rises and goes back. My boys back in the late 80's use to try to dig it up when they were little. The other day it was sticking up this much and had to take a shot of it and send to the boys. I'm sure it was a huge steel spool off a freighter that probably carried heavy cable at one time. Amazing the different days and into years what comes up and disappears. A week ago I couldn't even see it.