It's a fancy clamp-thingy, that functions almost as a third hand, to help you with some sorts of handsewing tasks, when a third hand would be really handy (no pun intended, truly...just feeling the lack of a good vocabulary tonight). I don't own one, but I've seen them in the occasional catalogue over the years. I *think* they're Victorian in origin. --sue
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Netherton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re: Holiday/Secret Santa Gifts > > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Carmen Beaudry wrote: > > > The only other costume oriented gifts I recieved were TWO reproduction > > sewing birds. One is now permanently mounted on the counter next to > > my sewing machine, and the other is in my traveling sewing kit. I've > > used them both already and they really do make handsewing easier. > > What is a sewing bird? > > --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
