sewing vocabulary
October 23, 2009
At a sewing class last night, it struck me that there are a lot of cool sewing words.
Some have alternate definitions in other contexts:
- baste
- batting
- bias
- bolt
- dart
- notions
- right side
- wrong side
Others just sound neat:
- bobbin
- pinking shears
- rick rack
- selvage
- thimble
That’s all, folks. Since sew many fabric and craft shops out there have punny names, my trying to think up new puns would be an unseamly waist of time.
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You could probably say “bobbin’” for apples…
Sew what?
I know. Lame.
I love pinking shears, both for their distinctive cutting style and the super funness of saying the word.
I heard a poem read on the radio during Poetry Month about 10-15 years ago that incorporated many such terms, and I have never forgotten it. The then-poet laureate Robert Pinsky was unfamiliar to me at the time, but his poem left such a haunting impression on me that I went out and bought a collection of his poems with “Shirt” in it (back in the days before googling). Here it is: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177167