Boat (sewing)

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Typical embroidery shuttle

The shuttle is used when embroidering and sewing to knot the upper thread, which has been pushed through the fabric with the needle, with the bobbin thread. All sewing machines and most of the current embroidery machines, especially according to their name, all ship embroidery machines use a shuttle. There are different designs.

etymology

The name has the shuttle from the shuttle , which is used in weaving and is also called the boat because of its shape. This name is still used occasionally today, even if it is now cylindrical in all modern sewing machines. Today tailors use the term coil.

functionality

The shuttle is a small metal shape with special guides into which a spool of thread is inserted. It is passed under the needle in such a way that corners lying on the shuttle pick up the upper thread, which is led around the shuttle and the thread inside, so that a knot is formed. Then the shuttle is moved back to its starting position. In today's sewing machines, a round hook with interchangeable bobbins is used instead of a shuttle.

literature

  • Albert Tanner: The boat flies, the engine roars. Weavers, stickers and manufacturers in Eastern Switzerland . Union Publishing House; Zurich 1985; ISBN 3-293-00084-3

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