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How to use bobbins in a sentence

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The family room tree has a sewing theme, with spools, bobbins and buttons for ornaments.
Lace is created by looping and twisting threads using a set of bobbins or a needle.
The largest is the drawer machine which has 4 feeds and knits from four bobbins.
In a barn they found four men dismantling bobbins of yarn, packed with the Sovereign cigarettes.
In the 1970s he sold hundreds of skipping ropes made from old Yorkshire mill bobbins to American customers.
In days gone by I would have ordered the non-standard bobbins my sewing machine uses from his shop and got them in mere weeks.
When finished with the length you want, take the strands off the bobbins and lace them through the holes in the edge of the pouch, two strands per side.
I wanted as much of the tweediness as I could manage, and a fairly homogeneous color, so I plied two bobbins of two-ply yarn and then plied the results together.
Conveniently, there's a Fabricland at the mall across the street from my office, so I can go and buy all the necessary things like bobbins and thread and such.
Both antique and unique bobbins, sometimes spangled, have become highly sought after by collectors.
Don't take this the wrong way, my friend, but I've never heard such complete and utter bobbins in all my life.
The rovings are collected in a drum and proceed to the slubbing frame which adds twist, and winds onto bobbins.
Creeling involved replacing the rovings bobbins in a section of the mule without stopping the mule.
To creel, the creeler stood behind the mule, he placed new bobbins on the shelf above the creel.
Both traditional and contemporary bobbins may be decorated with designs, inscriptions, or pewter or wire inlays.
Often, the bobbins are 'spangled' to provide additional weight to keep the thread in tension.
The back rollers pull the sliver from the bobbins, and passing it to the succeeding pairs, whose differential speeds attenuate it to the required degree of fineness.
The spinning mule has a fixed frame with a creel of cylindrical bobbins to hold the roving, connected through the headstock to a parallel carriage with the spindles.
Bobbins are typically found in sewing machines, cameras, and within electronic equipment.
Examples from Classical Literature
Whenever the lantern was filled, the tenter carried the roving to a simple machine, where it was wound upon bobbins by hand.
As in the slubber, intermediate, and roving frames, the rove is taken from two bobbins for one spindle.
These serve, by friction, to drive the bobbins which rest upon their peripheries.
The bobbins not actually in use hang down fixed as in lace work by a half-hitch.
I must administer an antidote, while Miss Deane prepares to tear herself away from her bobbins.
Splicers use a blast of compressed air to make joints between yarns in textile processes, connecting bobbins or repairing breakages.
The crane weighed about 7 tons, was filled with metallic oil and contained three bobbins, one of which was hollow and was used to hide the substance.
So Sam Bobbins has got his fortune and nobody's begrudging it to him.
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