Vintage Supplies
Box of Antique French Thread
Adorable little boxes of black or white thread: "enchantillons gratuits" (free samples) given out by haberdashers in the 1910s. The one-inch wooden spools are unused, but only... View full details
Box of Vintage Italian Thread
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A lovely intact box of a dozen spools of cotton thread (2.25 inches each, 50 meters) in a useful classic taupe, each wrapped in original cellophane. Judging... View full details
Classic Darning Cotton
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We've been collecting balls of deadstock specialized darning thread for ages, and swear they made it better back when everyone used it. (Can you even get... View full details
Darning and Mending Cottons
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Standard issue in every home till at least the 1950s, these sets of darning and mending cotton in "standard shades" are still good for any... View full details
Feminist Needles. Not
I found these 1970s Virginia Slims adverts thinly disguised as needle books a whole lot funnier before the 2016 election. Still. Hard to resist a... View full details
Gell Bros 1920s Needle Book
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When everyone had needles, they cared deeply about which they had, and this Gell Bros All Gold Eye book, at 50¢, must have been the bees... View full details
Handy Midget Darning Cotton
Listen, this hits all my buttons: you've got a mini kit, neat in a sweet box with excellent graphics. You've got a kitten on it.... View full details
Hexe & Witch Needle Threaders
I just don't know. Is it some 1950s antifeminist thing? Or do they mean these names in a positive, Wiccan sense? Well either way, these patented little... View full details
Hosiery Silk Mini Kit
I am a sucker for miniatures so I love these tiny little sets of fine J&P Coats silk "hosiery finish" mending thread in leg-like shades... View full details
Selection of Vintage Trim
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I like to have many and various bits of trim to hand, not for the traditional use of edging, but more for attaching in middles, covering or... View full details
Silver and Gold Metallic Yarn
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Metallics are often hard to work with; they spring back, don't lie flat, won't knot, or knot too much. This Camelot by Columbia Minerva Guaranteed Tarnish... View full details
Vintage French Floche
This dreamy embroidery thread is a silky ivory cotton made in France mid-last century (I think) by Dollfus-Mieg & Cie, that you know as DMC: it's deadstock... View full details