Talk:Sewing needle

Removed section "How needles are made" - Copyvio
Removed section "How needles are made". Copyvio from http://www.jjneedles.com/pages.php?pageid=8.

-- 186.221.141.89 (talk) 20:40, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Wrong dating
PederM (talk) 20:33, 17 March 2014 (UTC) I can't be right that "Even earlier Stone Age finds, such as the excavations on the island of Öland at Alby, Sweden, reveal objects such as bone needle cases dating to 60,000 BC." I must be 6.000 BC.
 * I don't know; if they're speaking of the iron age settlements, you're right to correct the order of magnitude; but if they mean "early stone age" finds -- we need a reference. Monado (talk) 03:14, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 60 000 BCE would place them neatly under a few thousand feet of ice... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.25.142.238 (talk) 22:56, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

The wikipedia article on Oland states "Archaeological evidence indicates the island of Öland was settled about 8000 BC" with a reference, so the entry here is clearly incorrect. I am removing the statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.81.81.84 (talk) 18:35, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

BP or BCE for earliest bone needle?
The article on Sibudu Cave states that the artifacts such as a bone needle and possible arrowhead are from 61,000 before present, while this article blithely quotes it as 61,000 before common era. Equivalent dates would be 61,000 BP and 59,000 BCE or 63,000 BP and 61,000 BCE. Which is it? I suspect it's a careless copying error from there to here but I don't know. Research is needed. Monado (talk) 02:48, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The abstract for the research paper doesn't say a bone needle but a point that might be from a needle or pin; and the date quoted is 61,000 BP, so I've changed our article to match. Monado (talk) 02:58, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

History of UK needle production
Studley "was one of the earliest centres of the local industry of needlemaking . . . Though the centre of the industry has now shifted to Redditch, there are still two large needle-mills here and several smaller concerns which produce fishing tackle." (Victoria County History - Warwickshire: Volume 3, Barlichway Hundred Parishes: Studley Pages 175-187. There is a needle museum in Redditch. Vernon White  . . . Talk 20:43, 26 December 2014 (UTC) There's a little book on the Internet Archive, which may help in the development of this article: History and description of Needlemaking (1862) by Michael T Morrall - 42 pages  Vernon White  . . . Talk 23:54, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

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Parts of a sewing needle
I added a section talking about the different parts of a sewing needle. I know there are more parts then what I mentioned, but those six parts are the main parts to know. I made some small correction to some spelling mistakes. Boo 135 (talk) 17:54, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Merger Proposal?
Move all the needle articles (that is, Hypodermic needle, Sewing needle, Surgical needle, Tuohy needle, Trussing needle, Upholstery needle, and Acupuncture needle) into one "Needle" article. All these objects are related (they are all thin, metal objects) and are all considered "needles". A westman (talk) 15:17, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose These are discrete topics. A hypodermic needle is dramatically different from an upholstery needle. Readers looking for information about one or the other should not have to wade through off topic material that is of no immediate interest to them. Cullen328 (talk) 05:31, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose All of these are used for completely different things – the only similarity is in their approximate shape. As a side note, Upholstery needle is already a redirect to Sewing needle, and Acupuncture needle doesn't have its own article either, it's a redirect to the fairly short section Acupuncture. Tollens (talk) 06:17, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Each of those is a distinct topic, as explained in the opening sentences of the article or of the target of the redirect – except for Upholstery needle, which is already merged into Sewing needle.   Maproom (talk) 08:30, 23 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Oppose, as has been ably argued above by Cullen328, Tollens, and Maproom. Moreover, I don't see any reason in the proposal for merging those articles that haven't already been merged. (Yes, the subjects are related, and they share a name. So?) -- Hoary (talk) 09:10, 23 October 2023 (UTC)