First the treasures. My friend Elisheva emailed me to ask if I would be interested in her husband's grandmother's stash of threads. Elisheva didn't know what was good and what should be tossed. She was kind enough to give me free reign to toss whatever I didn't want. Amazon.com Widgets This box arrived in my house on Friday afternoon. In the box was a mix of spools. I was not interested in the small spools of poly thread. those were easy to dump. I did want to show all of you a brief and terrible moment in sewing history, a Styrofoam spool They were not manufactured for a very long time. There was a period in the 1970's when natural products were suddenly very expensive. Manufacturers tried out various substitutes. I guess it was getting too expensive to manufacture wooden spools, so Styrofoam was briefly tried out. Those spools tended to flake with use and become less than useful. Rigid plastic is now the spool of choice. I tossed this spool as wel...
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