well then! all along I thought a winkie pin didn't have the thread go around
it.
ok, never mind. I'll just go make lace for awhile ok?
and I thought it was European origin LOL.

On 8/10/07, Tamara P Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Why it's callled "winkie pin" (and it's called the same thing even if
> it's not on the outside edge; whenever the worker turns around a pin
> it's a "winkie pin"), I have no idea. And, I've only come accross this
> term in English laces, never in the European ones, even though many of
> them use the same edge.
>

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Bev in Sooke BC (on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada)

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