bobbin
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And how long before this hyperbaric, ultrasonic sewing machine spins a bobbin?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
In the adjoining bathroom, you’ll find brass switchplates and a hand-drawn and -painted black-and-white encaustic tile inspired by European antique bobbin furniture legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
You get to peek over the lacemaker’s shoulder: She is making bobbin lace, one of the most expensive commodities of early modern Europe.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
So with a bobbin of freshly spun Manchester cotton in hand, we headed 45 miles north to Blackburn.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2017
Everything happened too fast—a bobbin of weft thread lasted hardly five minutes before it had to be replaced—and it was painfully deafening.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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