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5 unusual facts about Sewing needle


Feilongus

The skull and lower jaws held 76 long, curved needle-like teeth, eighteen in the upper, nineteen in the lower jaw, confined to the beak ends, the anterior third, of the jaws.

Pincushion

A pincushion (or pin cushion) is a small cushion, typically 3–5 cm across, which is used in sewing to store pins or needles with their heads protruding so as to take hold of them easily, collect them, and keep them organized.

Sewing needle

Darning: Sometimes called finishing needles, these are designed with a blunt tip and large eye making them similar to tapestry needles but longer; yarn darners are the heaviest sub-variety.

Ivory needles were also found dated to 30,000 years ago at the Kostenki site in Russia.

Shrewlike rat

Incisors are described as needle-like and mandibles as delicate (Nowak, 1999; Balete et al., 2007).



see also

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Little Archie #34, "The Incredible Cat-Caper" (1965) by Bob Bolling was an homage to The Incredible Shrinking Man, with Little Archie shrinking and fending off a cat with a sewing needle.