Those of us who have been around long enough are able to identify various items that young people would never be able to. One of these items that has left many millennials stumped is the item in the photo above. Are you able to identify it?

If you said it was a needle threader, you are absolutely right! Though there are many forms of this instrument, one of the most popular ones unites a brief period of wire bent into a diamond structure, with just one corner held with means of a parcel of tin-plate or even plastic. The person using the threader then puts the cable loop through the needle eye so that it enters the rope through the cable loop. Finally, the user pulls both loop back through the needle by the grip, which pulls through the thread.

The most common type of needle threader had the profile of a woman on the plate handle. I remember my grandmother having a box full of these when I was young! This needle threader makes it easier for people who are getting older and have bad eyesight to continue to sew. As we get older, it gets more and more difficult to get in that needle eye hole as it gets smaller!

Back in the day, sewing one’s clothes was a necessary skill to save money and was practical when clothes needed repairing. The younger generations most likely will never use a needle threader as times have changed and therefore, wouldn’t recognize one if they saw it.

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